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Danish Mahal: An Urdu bookshop in Lucknow
Cities change with time and citizens often rue the transformation. The reason is that most of us are nostalgic about our past [childhood] and we like things to remain same.Like most Indian cities, Lucknow is also changing. It has malls, chains of foo...
Djinns and the mosque: Legends and nostalgia
The tales of Djinns are fascinating and of course scary at the same time. In my childhood I heard numerous tales about the djinns (or jinns) and their exploits.The photo shows the Jizyagarhi mosque in Kakori, 14 km fom Lucknow. We heard umpteen stori...
Shia-Sunni clash in Lucknow
Once again Lucknow witnessed a Shia-Sunni clash on Tuesday. Though over a dozen persons were injured, the violence didn't spread and was effectively controlled.It was the same area of Walled City: Husainabad, that again witnessed the groups of Shia a...
Tea in Lucknow: Huzoor Chaai pijiye!
In the winters, Kashmiri Chai is one specialty of Lucknow, which you won't find elsewhere.This pink-coloured Chaai is a delicacy prepared through a special process.It tastes very different from tea and even those who don't like tea, drink cups and cu...
Lucknow and imbibing secular values: Vinod Mehta turns nostalgic
Vinod Mehta has written quite a long piece in the Outlook, fondy reminiscing the Lucknow of yore. Titled 'How I became a pseudo-secularist', the Outlook Editor recounts his childhood and youths in the City of Nawabs.He writes about 'Kazim and Co' and...
A unique book shop in Lucknow
In the photograph on the left, you can see heaps of books lying in two shops that look like go-downs of old second hand books.That's in fact, a single shop, a unique place for aficionados of Urdu literature--the Khurshid Book Depot.A few years ago on...
