This May Day! This May Day!
Workers of all lands- Unite, is the final line of The Communist Manifesto that is also inscribed in bold letters on the tombstone of Karl Marx, one of the world's greatest thinkers who wrote extensively against...
Breakfast in Chowk with Khushwant Singh
Kahkashan Naqvi recalls her first meeting with the late sardar in Lucknow
Mr Khushwant Singh became Editor of The Hindustan Times when my husband was covering Uttar Pradesh for the same paper. Mr V.P. Singh ...
Mr Chief Minister female artisans desperately need your help!
Padmashri Runa Banerjee has achieved a lot but there is so much more that she plans to do.
Talking to The Lucknow Observer at her office on Sitapur Road, Runa feels it is high time that the government got in...
Mesmerising Marquez is no more
The most lovable story teller of our times is no more but the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate remain with us forever.
As tribute to the 87 year old Columbian, who died in Mexico last month ...
The man who knows how to criticise
TLO finds out more about Professor Sharib Rudaulvi, one of the most important literary critics of today
Writers are a dime a dozen but literary critics are rare. This is despite the unquestionable importance o...
Attia Hosain: Unplugged
Rakhshanda Jalil reviews Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction, the late author's latest publication
Some books cast a long shadow on their author’s oeuvre with the book becoming virtually synonymous wit...
This uncontrollable craving for chaat
Spice up your palate with a round of chaat on an invitation of Shruti Shukla
The cuisine of Lucknow is incomplete without its lip smacking chaat known to be the best in the country. Chaat, a spicy snack orig...
Feasting and fasting in nawabi ishtyle
Mohsina Mirza drools over the delightful dastarkhwan of Lucknow
In the kitchen of the nawabs, cooks were given total freedom to delight and to surprise their master and to impress guests.
The dastarkhwan ...
The Importance of Being Lucknow
The political fortune of Lucknow is tied to its prime location in the heart of the lush plains of the fertile Ganga Valley, reports Mehru Jaffer
It is not very difficult to understand why the Bhartiya Janata P...
No pride but Mujhe chalte jaana hai…
Saira Mujtaba takes a ride in the fast disappearing tanga of Lucknow
He is no sherwani clad Lucknawi poet or writer, dragging on a hukkah, ensconced in an armchair and nostalgic about the old times. He is just...