LU Chronicles
Walking into the Divya Kala Mela at Lucknow University, I did not expect the campus to feel so alive. The fair was full of colours, crafts, skills and dignity in neat little rows of stalls, each one telling its own story. The first thing that struck me was the warmth. […]
Dear reader, It has been a while since we caught up. And because I’ve promised myself to stop oversharing, I’ll simply say this: I was busy, and writing had to wait. Now, as I nurse my way out of a stubborn writer’s block, I thought I’d share a story from […]
In Lucknow, the sounds that mark a life are ordinary: the cycle bell at dawn, the sputtering of an auto in traffic that refuses to move, the azaan threading through loudspeakers at dusk. For me, the one sound missing for about two decades of being born and raised in this […]