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Inside Lucknow's Chikankari Workrooms: Where the Real Stitching Happens

The Lane Before the ShowroomThe address your auto-driver knows is not the address that matters. Chikankari's public face is Aminabad and Hazratganj, glass-fronted shops, folded stacks of white-on-white georgette, a salesman who can name seventeen stitches in two minutes. The address that matters is a gali off Phool Wali Gali…

Times Life · Oct 21

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…

Times Life · Sep 4

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…

Times Life · Jul 8

A day later, Samajwadi Party IT cell member gets bail

LUCKNOW: Hours after a Hazratganj police team arrested Samajwadi Party IT cell member Manish Jagan Agarwal, he was released on Monday.

The Times of India · Jan 9, 2023

Uttar Pradesh: Fire breaks out at coaching institute in Lucknow, no casualty reported

LUCKNOW: A day after an inferno engulfed a hotel killing four persons in the city's commercial hub Hazratganj, a fire broke out at a coaching institute in the same area on Tuesday when classes were going on, officials said.

The Times of India · Sep 6, 2022

Lucknow Hotel Fire: 2 dead, 10 injured, several feared trapped

As many as two people died and 10 others are injured after a major fire broke out at Levana hotel in the Hazratganj area of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. Read more on Dynamite News

Dynamite News · Sep 5, 2022

Uttar Pradesh: Fire breaks out at a hotel in Hazratganj in Lucknow, Efforts underway to evacuate the people

Fire breaks out at a hotel in Hazratganj in Lucknow, Efforts underway to evacuate the people in the hotel rooms. Read more on Dynamite News

Dynamite News · Sep 5, 2022

'Kaali' poster row: Uttar Pradesh Police files FIR against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai

LUCKNOW: An FIR was registered at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow against Indian documentary filmmaker Leena Manimekalai for a poster in her new film 'Kaali' where a woman dressed as the Hindu deity is seen smoking.

The Times of India · Jul 5, 2022

Body of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited employee found hanging in park

Lucknow: A 38-year-old man working as an accountant in Shakti Bhawan was found hanging from a tree under mysterious circumstances in Laxman Park in Hazratganj, 7km from his home in Indiranagar.

The Times of India · Jun 9, 2022

UP: Two duped people in name of Gulf jobs

LUCKNOW: A joint team of Hazratganj police and DCP Central Surveillance Cell arrested two miscreants wanted in a case of fraud in which they had duped several lakhs of rupees from 350 innocent people looking for job opportunities in gulf countries.

The Times of India · May 8, 2022