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Chikankari Has Dozens of Stitches and Most Lucknow Shops Will Show You Only Three

What the shop wants you to seeWalk into any Chikankari shop on Hazratganj or Aminabad and the salesperson will point to three stitches: tepchi, murri, and phanda. They are real. They are beautiful. They are also the easiest to replicate at speed on cheap georgette, which is why they dominate…

Five Indian Cities Where a Food Walk on the Streets Tells You More Than Any Museum

Five Indian Cities Where a Food Walk on the Streets Tells You More Than Any Museum

Lucknow: The Tehzeeb Is in the Serving, Not the DishYou don't understand Lucknow by reading about the nawabs. You understand it by watching the man at the tunde kabab counter in Aminabad hand you your parcel with both hands, with a slight incline of the head, as if the transaction…

Lucknow's Awadhi Food Culture Is So Specific It Cannot Be a Stopover

Lucknow's Awadhi Food Culture Is So Specific It Cannot Be a Stopover

The Galouti Tells You Everything Before You Take a SeatThe galouti kebab was invented for a Nawab who had lost his teeth. That is not a legend, it is a design brief. The cooks of the Awadhi court in the 18th century ground meat so fine, with so many spices…

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5 Indian Cities Where Food Alone Is Worth the Travel: Eating Your Way Across India

Kolkata: The City That Feeds You Before You AskKolkata does not wait for you to find food. It finds you. Step off a train at Howrah and within three minutes someone is selling you a kathi roll so good that the Nizam's restaurant on Park Street, which invented it, still…

Lucknow: Defamation case registered against Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad and two others

LUCKNOW: A case of defamation was registered against Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad and two others on the complaint of Mirza Mohammed Abu Tayyab, an associate professor of Shia PG College, at Chowk police station on Saturday.

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Lucknow: Man held for theft of valuables worth lakhs in 150-year-old Anandi Devi temple

LUCKNOW: Taking advantage of gymnastic features of his body Pradeep aka Kalia had slithered in the 150-year-old Anandi Devi temple in Chowk area of Lucknow through the small space at top portion of the gate and decamped with valuables worth lakhs four days ago.

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Uttar Pradesh: Man held for theft of valuables worth lakhs from Lucknow temple

LUCKNOW: Taking advantage of his flexible body and acrobatic abilities, one Pradeep aka Kalia sneaked into the 150-year-old Anandi Devi temple in Chowk area of Lucknow through the small space on the top portion of the gate and decamped with valuables worth lakhs four days back.

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One held for thrashing youth over old rivalry in Lucknow

One held for thrashing youth over old rivalry in Lucknow

LUCKNOW: Hours after the video showing a miscreant thrashing a youth went viral on social media, cops arrested a 25-year-old man from Chowk on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Lucknow: More police deployment, patrolling during Ramzan

Lucknow: More police deployment, patrolling during Ramzan

LUCKNOW: Senior administrative and police officials did surprise inspection of Chowk area and took stock of preparations ahead of Eid and Akshay Tritiya which are falling on the same day.

The Times of India

Lucknow: Mahant arrested for sodomising youth, sexually harassing his sister

Lucknow: Mahant arrested for sodomising youth, sexually harassing his sister

LUCKNOW: A 50-year-old mahant of a temple in Chowk was arrested for sodomising a 20-year-old youth. He was also accused of sexually harassing the complainant’s sister while holding her captive in a room inside the temple.

The Times of India

Lucknow: Holi revelry to hit crescendo after two-year pandemic lull

Lucknow: Holi revelry to hit crescendo after two-year pandemic lull

LUCKNOW: Continuing to celebrate Holi in a traditional way like pre-Covid times, Chowk's famous Holi procession will be back and organised this year on a grand scale on March 18.

The Times of India

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