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Two Achievements of the Government and Two Failures of Lucknow University’s Institutions — From Sanskritiki and ABVP to Jantar Mantar

On any ordinary day, Jantar Mantar is a curious monument to time. The eighteenth-century instruments, built to measure the heavens, remind visitors that a nation once looked upward, to the stars, to possibility, to reason itself. For nearly three centuries, they have watched empires rise, governments fall, and flags change. […]

State on Fire: Business as Usual

There are some places that become part of your life without you ever entering them. For me, this was one such building. Every day on my way to the University of Lucknow, I would pass the commercial complex in Aliganj. It was impossible to miss. On the ground floor was […]