Mir Babbar Ali Anees (1802 -1874)
This month Atif Hanif celebrates the memory of Lucknow's 'Shayar-e Azam'
Jis Shama Ki Ho Roshni Allah Ko Manzoor,
Hota Hai Farogh Uska Zamane Se Kahi Door
Mir Babbar Ali Anees popularly known as 'Shay...
Pride of Lucknow Award
Setting the record straight
Veena Talwar Oldenburg, author of Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating a Cultural Whodunit, The Making of Colonial Lucknow and Life Style as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Luc...
The hold your breath election this April
Vijay Dutt reports from Delhi on what boils over this election month in the political kettle apart from tea!
General elections are held in the country every five years. But this April, the elections are expect...
Wajid Ali Shah Award ~ Strongest Voice
Roop Rekha Verma may look frail but she is perhaps one of the strongest voices amongst women in Lucknow today. For the same reason the former Vice Chancellor and head, Philosophy Department of the University of...
Forget Me Not KA Abbas: A Man for all Seasons
Dr. Zoya Zaidi, MD introduces The Lucknow Observer to the entire oeuvre of the inimitable Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
This year marks 100 years of the tragic break of World War I, launch of the International Women's ...
Thumri makes Radha a complete nayika
By Kumud Diwan, thumri exponent par excellence writes about the extreme beauty of her art
The way a thumri is able to embellish love between Radha and Krishna impressed Wajid Ali Shah so much that at the cou...
Gorgeous Ghararas of Lucknow
Nishita Banerjee on the making of a chattapati gharara
Lucknow has been a hub of high culture and tradition for long. Amongst other traditions, the city is famous for donning the flared and elegant looking g...
Yashpal: A Woman’s Best Friend
Anand looks back on Yashpal's Divya, Hindi's first feminist novel
Divya, is a Hindi novel by Yashpal. It is set in 1st century AD when there was a wide mingling of Indian and Hellenic cultures in Northern In...
Lucknow in Bollywood
Ye Kya Jagah Hai Dosto’n...
Arjun Kapoor was just another Juhu boy when he was picked up for the lead role in Ishaqzaade to play a UP chhokra. How did the very bombaiya son of film director Boney Kapoor tr...
Lest we forget Mustakeem of Muzaffarnagar
Mustakeem 28, was at home in Fugana with his 26 year old wife and elderly, sick mother on the night of 8 September, 2013 when Muslim homes were attacked, ransacked, looted and burnt all over Muzaffarnagar resul...