Manish Rathore meets the city's Shahrukh Khan fan number one
I first called on Vishahrukh a few years ago to find out more about his craze for Shahrukh Khan. I was greeted with the mobile caller tune pyar ho...
Dr. R.K. Pachauri is an economist and industrial engineer who studied at Lucknow's La Martiniere College.
He is head of the Delhi based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an independent, not-for-prof...
Renowned journalist and film-maker par excellence Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was born on 7 June in 1914. A hundred years later Dr. Zoya Zaidi takes a look at his short stories.
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas started writing rea...
Saira Mujtaba visits Cyrus 'Lucknawi' Kharas for a talk on the Parsi community in the city
Lucknow has always been a melting pot of different people and cultures. The Parsi community too has enriched the cit...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
The power of radio is unimaginable as it is able to reach a huge audience instantly and the trick of the trade is to connect with the listener in an immediate and relevant way. For the same reason, The Lucknow ...
The work of Rakhshanda Jalil is precious for introducing Urdu writing to those unfamiliar with the language. In an interview with Saira Mujtaba, the scholar explains what translation means to her and how this w...
