Mushairas and Lucknow city

In today’s world, people have numerous entertainment options to choose from. Right from excursion trips to picnics, movies to discos, the choices are numerous and wide-ranging. However, in the olden…

Kabutarbazi and Cock-Fighting – The Royal Sports of the Nawabs of Lucknow

The Nawabs of Lucknow led a supremely luxurious life, the traces of which are very much evident in the Lucknawi culture. The Nawabi lifestyle was replete with royalty, grandeur, class…

The Growing Mall Culture in Lucknow

Going for an outing to enjoy the typical Awadhi shaam (evening) doing nothing but window shopping in the Victorian walkways of Hazratganj or ‘Ganjing” as it is popularly known  is like…

The Various Malls of Lucknow

The city of Nawabs, Lucknow is experiencing a paradigm shift in the lifestyle and buying behavior of the people owing to the growing number of malls in the city. Just…

The Exuberance of Jamghat in Lucknow

With no televisions, internet, and video games for leisure, the people of Lucknow are believed to have indulged in kite flying, cock fighting, shatranj (chess) and kancha (marbles) as common…

Beat the Heat in the Water Parks of Lucknow

  Lucknow city, better known as “Baghon aur Nawabon ka sheher” (the city of gardens and Nawabs), boasts of some of the most sprawling gardens of the country. The glorious…