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UP Govt gears up to push Tourism Shaheer A. Mirza Uttar Pradesh has all the ingredients of a fantastic tourist destination but poor infra-structure and all the barriers of bureaucracy have always been a const...

Water Scarcity in India Saurabh Mishra India has the second largest population in the world. According to the World Bank, India has taken significant steps to reduce poverty but the number of people who live ...

A Widely Travelled Gandhian Akansha Born and brought up in Lucknow in a middle class family, Sandeep Pandey has conquered rare humanitarian realms with his radical approach and thought. A winner of the 2002 R...

The Bradman of Indian Hockey The name K.D. Singh ‘Babu’ is very familiar for the Lakhnavis because of Lucknow’s stadium (known as the K.D.Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium). But few people today know who the man behind thi...

Down the Memory lane Arif Naqvi After a long gap I had come to my native town, Lucknow, to meet my relatives and friends. Much had changed in the city. The streets and buildings were looking different. The dr...

Taking of Holy Dip Sehar Siddiqui The chants of the saints, the ringing of temple bells, the flames of the Aarti, the fragrance of incense sticks, all build up a scene that looks not only mystical but captiva...

Relishing the Natural Beauty Sehar Siddiqui As the New Year begins, and we all slowly and steadily learn to write 2015 instead 2014, It's also time to plan some things for the coming year 2015. Now we all hav...

The Way Forward Shaheer A. Mirza What pulls in a tourist to a certain destination, the reply would be as simple as it could be. It is entirely the taste and choice of a tourist to pick and choose the place of...

The Man who put Lucknow on Medicinal Map Akansha Prof. Mahdi Hasan was born on March 21, 1936 in a village Gadayan, Akbarpur (then in Faizabad, now in Ambedkar Nagar), in UP. His father, Jawad Husain, was Teh...