Residency (Lucknow) – A Preserve Monument
The History of Residency can be traced back to 1774 AD when Nawab Shuauddahula agreed to have a British Resident stationed in Awadh. Residency…
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Lucknow : The Land of Kababs
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…
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Sham -e- Awadh (Lucknow)
My first visit to Lucknow was in 1992 when I joined Ranbaxy, since than I have been to Lucknow many times but never visited…
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A Visit to Lucknow-Photoblog
This is my photo blog. Hope it inspires to be their.
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La Place Sarovar Portico, Lucknow – Review
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,…
Read MoreA trip to home this winter-Part1
Ten minutes of recharging and I found the phone booth guy keenly interested in my phone , probably checking out the features (which doesn’t sound very plausible given it is a very simple model). When I asked for my phone he smiled for some unknown reason and said,”Maidam, charge toh pura lagega. Waise aapka blue tooth on tha…hum band kar diye”
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Lucknow – Chitrakoot – Lucknow Road Review
I recently had an opportunity to visit Chitrakoot by Road as part of my official travels. The summary of the route followed is given…
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Trip to City of Nawabs and Kebabs
I am glad to have the opportunity to post the 5ooth post of Ghumakkar.com :) Congrats to every author of this wonderful travel blog….
Read MoreDelhi to Lucknow on NH2
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…
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A Short Journey through Rain in Plains on a very Late Train
Hello Ghumakkars, The following post is based on a post originally made by me to a closed Yahoogroup. I am posting this here as…
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By the lanes of Aminabad – Lucknow
A business trip for two days to the city of ‘Tehzeeb’, as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room…
Read MoreRoad Review : Delhi-Kanpur-Lucknow
Having completed the big road drive (Delhi – Jaisalmer- Jodhpur – Delhi in 4 days) on previous weekend, we were high on driving!
The distance from Delhi to Lucknow is approximately 500 km by road. The standard route is Delhi – Hapur – Moradabad – Rampur- Bareilly – Shahjahanpur- Sitapur – Lucknow. Another new route that is becoming popular is the Delhi – Kanpur – Lucknow route. Some of my friends tried this route few months back and said that it is fast as it’s a 4 lane road but longer than the standard route by about 50 km. We decided to take the longer and the faster one.
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