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Pride of Lucknow Award

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...
Wajid Ali Shah Award

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...
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The Prince of Print

Munshi Newal Kishore is often called the William Caxton of Lucknow after the English businessman who first introduced a printing press in England in the 15th century. The city may have reduced his name to a ro...
Lal peda in Lucknow with farooq shaikh

Lal peda in Lucknow with Farooq Shaikh

Deepti Naval who has played in nearly a dozen films with the late Farooq Shaikh including the 1981 charmer Chashme Baddoor told The Lucknow Observer that yes, it is true that the actor was enchanted with Luckno...
Is arrogance the middle name of AAP

Is arrogance the middle name of AAP?

I am an anarchist, declared Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after leading his ministers and legislators from their respective office in the Secretariat to squat on the ground in front of the Rail Bhavan for a dh...

Har dehleez pe hai chiraagh…

This year people gave expression to their faith in non-violence by lighting a lamp at their door step exactly at 17.17 hours on 30th January in memory of the exact date and time that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ...

Naiyer Masud aur Lucknow

Lucknow based Naiyer Masud's contribution to the world of Persian and Urdu writing remains unparalleled. As far as story telling is concerned, the scholar and writer is perfection personified. But it is his hu...
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