I am basically from Lucknow and live in Noida. Normally I board a night train to visit Lucknow. We were visiting my parents in Lucknow on new year's weekend and this time decided to drive down because of two reasons. One, we had to pick up some stuff... Read More

My summer trip to Nainital and then to Corbett started from Lucknow, the place where I live. I initially thought of writing all of this in one long story but someone suggested that it might be better to separate stories, it might be easier to read. ... Read More

A business trip for two days to the city of 'Tehzeeb', as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room for non-business activity, even though the activity is in/around an old and charming business center. I was there to pick some brights... Read More

Hello Ghumakkars, The following post is based on a post originally made by me to a closed Yahoogroup. I am posting this here as I could not resist the temptation of sharing an exhilirating train ride in monsoon here, based on the response that Kar... Read More

While visiting Lucknow (my home town) last weekend, I thought about the kind of people visiting Lucknow and realized that tourists normally do not travel specially to 'see' Lucknow but visit it for work or on the way to some other city as it has an A... Read More

Hello Ghumakkars In this post, I’ll be covering my hometown i.e. Lucknow. I have always loved Lucknow for its Culture, Food, Traditions, Beauty & Hazratganj. Yes people, Hazratganj is one of the favorite destinations for Lucknowities. It is ... Read More

Hi All, Recently went on a road trip from Delhi to Lucknow on NH2for a cousins wedding. We left on 8th Feb 09 and returned on 11th Feb 09. The road to Agra as most Delhities now are one of the best but mark my words the conditions from Agra ... Read More

I am glad to have the opportunity to post the 5ooth post of Ghumakkar.com :) Congrats to every author of this wonderful travel blog. This year I and my parents spent the Diwali vacation with at a relatives place in a small town in Uttar Pradesh. The... Read More

I recently had an opportunity to visit Chitrakoot by Road as part of my official travels. The summary of the route followed is given below Onward journey Lucknow – Kanpur – Bindki – Banda – Chitrakoot Return Journey Chitrakoot –... Read More

My first visit to Lucknow was in 1992 when I joined Ranbaxy, since than I have been to Lucknow many times but never visited any tourist place there in these last 18 years. In February 2011, I had to attend a conference in SGPGI. On Sunday the con... Read More

It was my fourth summer at Lucknow and my old friends would now know the reason of my annual pilgrimage. Last year i.e. 2009, we stayed at the humble and clean college guest house since our experience at Piccadily, where we put up in 2008 was not too... Read More

I had some urgent work at Lucknow and a ceremony to attend in Allahabad. I decided to travel by road and started around 11:00 pm for Lucknow via Kanpur. The road till Kanpur City Bypass is excellent (you have to bear with certain patches especially n... Read More

The History of Residency can be traced back to 1774 AD when Nawab Shuauddahula agreed to have a British Resident stationed in Awadh. Residency was established at Lucknow when the capital of Awadh was shifted from Faizabad to Lucknow in year 1775 A... Read More

Road review for this journey or rather saying road review for NH2 in one word to say is simply awesome. It is advisable to start as early as possible in the morning so as to avoid the city rush. Starting with the Durgapur Expressway from Kolkata, t... Read More

One of my friend was getting married in his hometown, Lucknow and I got a chance to visit this city. A photoblog from this visit: [caption id="attachment_23952" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Lucknow\'s Charbagh Railway Station"][/captio... Read More

Kababs and Lucknow are inseparable in such a way like Sachin Tendulkar with bowler’s humiliation, Suresh Kalmadi with corruption and Aamir Khan with intervention in direction (off-course others)……in nut shell you can’t get flavor of one... Read More

Well... it was another routine trip to my parents' and there really was nothing special about it when I set out for it. But the fog induced train delays and an interesting set of co passengers made it a little eventful. On the fateful day, I left... Read More

"Humein Lucknow par hai naaz aur Lucknow ko hum per naaz" Hello Ghumakkars, This is Naman,a Class 12th student from Lucknow-The City of Nawabs.(I feel proud to say that :) ).The city has a very special place in my heart and so let me take you a... Read More

Sultanpur and Lucknow (Day 4 NH96) Another early travel on day 4, this time the destination was Sultanpur, where I did my MCA from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (UP Technical University). I always had an idea that Allahabad -> Sultanpur d... Read More

Nawabs have taken a lot of bad rap in the press for being fat, drunk & kowtowing to the British. But here is a story that will warm the cockles of your cynic heart. To be fair to the press, Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh also started as fat, dr... Read More

Lucknow Reprise Visiting a city after eight years provides you a chance to juxtapose your memories with the present. Some match exactly while others are a small part of the present scene. Some are totally unrecognizable. What you found was that th... Read More

On May 1, 1857 East India Company’s Sepoys (Indian Soldiers) belonging to 7th Oudh Irregular Infantry refused to bite the cartridges of the newly introduced Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket. The cartridges were allegedly greased with beef and pork... Read More