Drawing Room Libraries
Indecent Exploitation of a Genuine Book
I’m delighted to have picked the topic that has always irritated me from core of my thought process and somet...
Safia Akhtar
A Candle in the Wind
Safia Akhtar who died prematurely at the age of thirty-seven in 1953 needs no introduction in Urdu literary circles. But to thos...
Prof. Mahdi Hasan
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 ...
Jai Shankar Prasad
The Hero of Neo-Romanticism
Mohammad Rehan
Jai Shankar Prasad, a most celebrated personality related to the modern Hindi literature and Hindi theate...
Qurratulain Hyder
A Pioneer of Urdu Fiction
Born on 20 January 1927 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, (though her family were from Nehtaur, UP), Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder is one of...
Hazratganj
The Heart of Lucknow
Nikita Gupta
A casual stroller taking a final turn from Qaiserbagh, would find himself gazed upon by monuments of exquisite bea...
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Poet who brought romanticism to revolutionary poetry
Dr. Zoya Zaidi
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the most celebrated poet of 20th century, a romantic, a revolut...
Allahabad…The Historic City !
See it through my eyes
Sehar Siddiqui
I do not remember my first rendezvous with this city, but I do remember my first date with this city. At the a...
The Sad Part of The Masterpieces
Buildings of Husainabad and its preservation
It is a matter of concern, wrote several historians, that the Nawabs, their family members and also the ...