Salma Mirza Beg
A Sparkling Smile Assuring Well-being
A cherubic effervescent smile greets you at Malhaur Railway station when you ask this 22-year girl if she is the one all over news and Internet being the first Indian woma...
Suryashashthi
The Fast and the Festivity
Shiwali Sethiya
All the cultures have been worshipping Sun since life came into existence. Every community has celebrated and adulated the life gifting forces of Sun. And in Indian ...
Jugal Kishore
Curtains on The Life of Theatre
Well versed as an artist, director, poet and writer Jugal Kishore was actively associated with theatre from more than two decades. A graduate of Lucknow University and Bhartendu...
Travel Writers Conclave
"Travelling - it makes you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller"
Nikita Gupta
The beauty of writing flushed with the truth and inspiration of travelling makes for a writer's ultimate bonanza and it i...
Lucknow College of Arts and Crafts
The Deteriorating Ruins of Art
Lucknow Arts College was established in the year 1911 by the then ruling British government. Mr. Nathenial Herd was the first principal of this college. He especially emphasized ...
Ali Sardar Jafri
A Poetic Master with a Rebel Mind
"Aise Deewane Phir Na Aayenge
Dekh Lo Humko Bemisaal Hain Hum"
Born in 1913 to an aristocratic family in Balrampur, district Gonda, Ali Sardar Jafri was raised in an e...
The Cricket fever
Rise and fall of the sport in Lucknow
Arpit Saxena
The dates were approaching so there was beginning of the prayers and chanting in every nook and corner of the country. It was not the board exams of the kids...
The Origin of “Bazaar”
and Revisiting Some Fascinating Ones
The idea of a bazaar, as a fixed and permanent place for buying and selling goods in villages, towns and cities, originated in ancient Islamic civilization. Initially, trad...
Lakhauri Bricks
The Building Blocks of Lucknow
Lucknow monuments are trademarks of 17-18th century Awadhi architecture of Northern India, which are a kind of masonry structure of grand proportions. Before Independence, Awadh ...