To love and to respect women?
Dr Alok Bajpai traces the root cause of repeated rapes in Uttar Pradesh to fear
This summer Uttar Pradesh simmers in another kind of heat as violence against women continues unabated. There is a surge in cri...
Save Our Women!
Social activists Shefali Misra and Hema Badhwar Mehra return to their place of birth in Uttar Pradesh to discover more about the recent surge of rapes and murder of women
“What seems like a spurt of bone chi...
Making up stories!
Just like our very own desi dastango Mahmood Farooqi, Richard Hamilton is trying to rescue the art of oral storytelling by writing a book on story tellers in Morocco. In an exclusive interview with The Lucknow ...
Loafing in Landour!
Kakul Hai makes it to Mussoorie to beat the heat in Lucknow but also to experience Nature
Watching the clouds traverse the mountainous expanse is an amazing sight. Once moisture-laden clouds find their way t...
Loved beyond borders
Amit Ranjan flips through the pages of the autobiography of one of Indian cinema's most magnetic personality
On 9 December 2013, during my visit to Pakistan, I met Saeed Ahmed, author of Dilip Kumar: Ahadnam...
No degree in story telling!
Deepak Singh takes his story telling skills across seven seas
I was born and bred in Lucknow. My family moved house a few times within the city, but never more than two kilometers away from Hazratganj—the ce...
For the love of SRK!
Manish Rathore meets the city's Shahrukh Khan fan number one
I first called on Vishahrukh a few years ago to find out more about his craze for Shahrukh Khan. I was greeted with the mobile caller tune pyar ho...
Weeping river, crying shame
Narendra Modi promises to nurse the Ganga back to life, will Rajnath Singh treat the Gomti with similar love and care, wonders Mehru Jaffer
Gomti key sahil par rang-o-bu ka tufaaN hai,
Shaam kiya gulista...
What is this WED?
World Environment Day (WED) focuses attention on important environmental issues and it is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations has been stimulating worldwide awareness of the environme...
The Gomti River taught me swimming
Dr. R.K. Pachauri is an economist and industrial engineer who studied at Lucknow's La Martiniere College.
He is head of the Delhi based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an independent, not-for-prof...