Lucknow

Promise of Urban Renewal for Congested Cities

Rajeev Deshpande

Cities to be developed as growth hubs with policies and incentives for states, transit plans for urban centres with 30 lakh plus populations

India’s Bowlers are Unstoppable

Rajeev Deshpande

A 230 target would be harder to defend against better teams but India’s annihilation of England on Sunday shows why Indian bowlers can make short work of the best batting sides

Kanika Kapoor: Baby Doll Interrupted

Kaveree Bamzai

Reinventions are brutal but none is more exacting than in the Mumbai film industry

Wajid Ali Shah: The Royal Yogi of Lucknow

Ranjit Hoskote

A Nawab’s syncretism finds expression in his art

Mother’s Kitchen

Ullekh NP

Tracing the taste of Lucknow to the ancestral history of a dutiful daughter

Anti-ISIS Fatwa Finds No Mention in Most Urdu Dailies

Tufail Ahmad

Roznama Aag of Lucknow was one of the few dailies that carried the news of the fatwa on its front page

‘To a young man, every city looks like Paris’

Sudhir Mishra

Lucknow reflects in my work, the way I talk, the way I walk and the way I live my life.

The Edifice Complex

Shivam Vij

Mayawati wants to reshape Lucknow’s landscape for future generations to marvel at. Or, given her current political ambitions, are her motives far more immediate?