LUCKNOW REVISITED

Having spent seven prime years of my life in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh over half a century ago, I knew its every nook and corner. The city could spring no surprises, I boasted to my wife, her sister and her husband. But the city had other plans.  We exited Charbagh railway station on …

वे गोरे नवाब

(यह  लेख  टाइम्स  ऑफ  इंडिया   के  1968  के  वार्षिक  अंक  में  प्रकाशित  श्री  आर. पी.  गुप्ता  लिखित    ‘The Nabobs and Their Servants’  पर  आधारित  है.) कभी  ‘सोने  की  चिड़िया’  कहलाने  वाला  हिन्दुस्तान  विभिन्न  शासकों  की  आपसी  लड़ाई  के  कारण  उस  ईस्ट  इंडिया  कंपनी  के  आधीन  हो  गया  जो  सत्रहवीं  शताब्दी  के  प्रारंभ  में  …

Shahjahanabad, the seventh city of Delhi

We; a group of a dozen brothers, sisters, cousins and their spouses; boarded the Metro at Patel Chowk and disembarked a few minutes later at Chawri Bazar. Stepping out of the state-of-the-art station we landed in a bedlam of motor cars, auto-rickshaws, peddle-rickshaws, bicycles, pushcarts and pedestrians, to say nothing of the stray dogs and […]