Lucknow Archives - Different Truths

June 27, 2026
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

That Language Named Urdu

The fictional character of Urdu having a Muslim character persisted in times of Premchand and also exists till now. He also encouraged the use of Hindustani, a simplified version...

May 17, 2022
Arindam Roy
Potpourri

Enigmatic Shekhar

In his over three-decade journey as a journalist, Arindam shows us the many faces of newsrooms in India, at the turn of the Millennium. He calls this series, ‘The Life...

June 9, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Yogi in Deep Trouble after Humiliating Defeats

Both Yogi and state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey have been summoned to Delhi by party president Amit Shah to seek a firsthand report on the defeat. Both Yogi...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Tough Challenge Ahead for a Cornered BJP

The UP verdict is a clear indication of the shape of things to come if a coalition of SP, BSP, RLD, Congress and other smaller parties were to take...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Fossil Fuel, Politics

Nobody in BJP Makes the One Paisa Cut

Amit Shah is too big for Modi’s boots and the Yogi, who people thought would wear the King’s crown on his bald head, also doesn’t qualify in the people’s...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mayawati Adopts Tough Posturing on Alliance: Threat to Contest Alone if Party Denied Justice

Mayawati had made it clear that she was willing to forge an anti-BJP alliance at the national level but would prefer to go it alone if her party was...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

BJP, Opposition Parties Brace for UP By-Elections

Opposition parties are working on a formula to field joint candidates against BJP in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpor Assembly by-elections due on May 28. The by-elections have been...

April 16, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Suddenly, Our PM is Hard-Pressed for Time: Modi Has cut it Too Close to D-Day

Illiah’s “reminder” to the PM that his government was voted to power not by the upper castes but by the Dalit and the OBC, and therefore the PM, who...

April 11, 2018
IPA Service
Crime, Law & Order, Politics, Security

Milk Man Yogi Cannot Smell Coffee

There are cow-ambulances to take hurt cattle to hospital. But ‘man’? His daughter gets gang-raped by people linked to a Yogi MLA and allegedly by the MLA, too, and...

March 26, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

SP-BSP Alliance Unnerves BJP Leadership

The announcement made by BSP national president Mayawati after the Rajya Sabha polls that the alliance between her party and Samajwadi Party would continue till 2019. Mayawati said that...