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The story of Lucknow is equally rooted in myth and legends as it is shaped by centuries of political shifts and cultural evolution. Nestled on the banks of the Gomti River, the city’s origins, and its name, is often linked with the epic Ramayana, where it is recorded to have been founded by…
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Lucknow, a city of monumental cultural legacy, owes much of its vibrant heritage to the Nawabs of Awadh or Oudh. While the Mughals laid its foundations, the Nawabs elevated Lucknow to unmatched grandeur. The Nawabi era began in 1722 with Saadat Khan, who established Awadh as a semi-autonomous…
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What are today called 'B-towns' or Tier-2 cities have the potential to become culture-towns, if they don't lose their way building malls and flyovers. As part of the series ‘Reading a City’, we explore how Abdul Halim Sharar gave readers a sense of the culture of Lucknow, along with its short…
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The past is in many ways a foreign country, and to walk through towns of the past slowly is an invigorating exercise. And there are those who can read them, see how they had grown. Some, such as Syed Ahmed Khan and Patrick Geddes, can use words vividly to conjure up other people in another time…
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As a part of the collaboration between Sahapedia and the Rupayan Sansthan, Jodhpur, William Dalrymple delivered a talk titled 'Scent and Sensuality in India' at Arna Jharna: The Desert Museum in December 2017. In this talk, Dalrymple examines how pre-modern South Asia had one of the most refined…
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Abbas on Films and Film-writing
Ravikant (historian, writer and translator)
The polyglot Abbas was as incredibly prolific in his nearly half-century long filmmaking career as he was in his literary and journalistic avatars. He was also successful in carving out a niche for himself by…
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