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The Lucknow Literary Festival is an international literary festival held annually in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India since 2013. [1] The Lucknow Literary Festival is an endeavour of the Lucknow Society, which is a non profit organization. It is a 3-day event. It is held each year in Lucknow, during the month of February/March. [2]
The Culture of Uttar Pradesh is an Indian culture which has its roots in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Urdu literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. [1] Lucknow , the capital of Uttar Pradesh, has historical monuments including Bara Imambara and Chhota Imambara , and has preserved the damaged complex of the Oudh-period British Resident 's quarters ...
The Lucknow Race Course in Lucknow Cantonment is spread over 28.42 hectares (0.2842 km 2; 70.22 acres); the course's 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi)-long race track is the longest in India. [247] The Lucknow Golf Club is on the sprawling greens of La Martinière College. The city has produced several national and world-class sporting personalities.
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
Claude Martin, French major general who fought for the British; established La Martiniere Schools at Lucknow, Lyons and Calcutta; Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, British general; Manoj Kumar Pandey, 1st battalion, 11 Gorkha Rifles, Param Vir Chakra; Arthur Skey, Royal Navy rear-admiral; George Powell Thomas, A British soldier, artist and poet.
In the British attack on Lucknow in 1856 and the subsequent First war of independence in 1857, the family's homes were all destroyed and Meenai was forced to flee with his family, first to the nearby town of Kakori where he found refuge with the poet Mohsin Kakorvi, and eventually to the state of Rampur, where he found favor at the court of the ruler, Nawab of Rampur Yusef Ali Khan Bahadur.
Guzashta Lucknow is the collection of 54 articles. It tells the history of Lucknow and the rulers of Oudh, [1] and describes the culture and way of life of the people of Lucknow during the late 18th and 19th centuries. [2] The initial chapters are concerned with the history of the area.
Aslam Farrukhi was born on 23 October 1923 into a literary family of Lucknow, British India. His ancestors had come to Lucknow from the nearby town Farrukhabad, hence the family name being used here is Farrukhi. [2] [1] After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he migrated with his family to Karachi, Pakistan in September 1947. [2] [3]