Pride of Lucknow Award
Setting the record straight Veena Talwar Oldenburg, author of Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating a Cultural Whodunit, The Making of Colonial...
People
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...
Forget Me Not KA Abbas: A Man for all Seasons
Dr. Zoya Zaidi, MD introduces The Lucknow Observer to the entire oeuvre of the inimitable Khwaja Ahmad Abbas This...
The Prince of Print
Munshi Newal Kishore is often called the William Caxton of Lucknow after the English businessman who first introduced a...
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...
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...
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...
On the sweetness of K.P. Saxena’s speech
KP Saxena is no more but his voice lives on. No disease or death can ever silence Saxena’s voice...
Naiyer Masud aur Lucknow
Lucknow based Naiyer Masud’s contribution to the world of Persian and Urdu writing remains unparalleled. As far as story...