Allama Tafazzul Hussain Khan
The Prime Minister of Awadh with a difference
Allama Tafazzul Hussain Khan (1727 - 1800) was popularly known as 'Khan-e-Allama'. The title of 'Allama' was conferred by 'darbar-e-shahi' only to highly exception...
Samina Bano
Wings to a Thousand Distant Dreams
Samina Bano, a seemingly ordinary girl, worked day and night to make the dream of education for all a reality. With the Right to Education listed in our Fundamental Rights, o...
Munshi Ameer Ahmad Minai
The Pinnacle of Paeans
Awadh (1722-1856) period paved the way to register in the form of composite culture. This period is also known as golden period of Urdu poetry. Among many of the writers Munshi Ameer Ahm...
Bindadin Maharaj
The Radical Torchbearer of Lucknow Gharana
For those who know and acknowledge that treasures and valuables exist in forms beyond currency and price, the Awadhi culture is a sea of riches beyond measure, beyond...
Asit Kumar Haldar
Contribution of Lucknow in Art World
Haldar was born in Jorasanko, Kolkata in 1890 and is son of Raveendra Naath Thakur's niece, to see his mind struck in art from his childhood his father and grandfather sent...
Jai Narain PG College
A Traditional Approach Towards Teaching in the Era of Professionalism
An institution established as Anglo- Sanskrit school (Pathshala) in the year 1917 has now turned as KKC Degree College. The famous Jai Nara...
Dasht-e-Junoon
The Missing Manuscript
Shah Iqbal Ahmed Sabri Quddusi was a descendant of the Sufi saints. His paternal ancestors, including his father Shah Masood Ahmed Sabri, were sajjada nashins of the dargah of Ali Ahmed ...
A Day for Gandhi
and Years for Ignorance
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, world’s most renowned pacifist, a person, rather a phenomenon, whose mere name is a synonym for non-violence, was born in this month to a Hindu Modh Baniya f...