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April 9th 2013
Lucknow So after a 2hrs 10 min flight from Bengaluru with Indigo we arrive at Lucknow airport just in time for sunset at 6pm. A few observations here: The flight itself is good as usual with Indigo and the service excellent for a low budget airline. However, what catches our attention in the Indigo flight magazine is the Recruitment advertisement and the advert – extolling the “Girl Power” of their air stewardesses. Boy, are they blatantly and overtly sexist and racist in tone and content. Which is appalling and irresponsible for a corporate company at a time when India is struggling with the concept of the role of women in modern India and the inequalities and injustices they endure. We decide to write to the Company about this in the strongest terms and copy ... read more
October 3rd 2012
The night was short and I left Ayodhya on a tempo with a bunch of school girls destination Faizabad to take a bus to Lucknow. The bus itself was a dirty piece of rusty metal. People would wipe the seats with newspapers before sitting down. The ride was shorter than I had anticipated: two and a half hours. It was semi-comfortable as I had to keep my big bag on my lap and there was little legroom. I sat next to an engineering student (everybody I meet seems to be one!) checking his notes on the Leibniz theorem. Another guy tried talking to me but the pan he was chewing and the broken English didn’t make for a very productive conversation. Once in Lucknow I get robbed 50 rupees by a rickshaw to the train station ... read more
November 9th 2010
So we have reached day 7 and are still trying to settle into India. Is massively overwhelming, loud and bright. We went to the Taj Mahal which was really beautiful. Much larger than we both thought it would be, stunning creamy white, intricately detailed with stars and flowers. It was really busy there, even though we were there really early. Lots of European and Japanese tourists as well as huge numbers of Indian families. We wandered around for a few hours but had to leave as my stomach told me to! We are currently in Lucknow, staying in a home stay which is nice. Is in a quiet suburb so there is much less noise and fuss (and smell). We get a good breakfast too which is useful as we have now started the dreaded malaria ... read more
November 4th 2010
I took a break from Varanasi after realising a week there would be too long, and headed for Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and site of the 1857 Lucknow Siege. The Siege was one of the major parts of the 1857 Indian Rebellion. The six month siege of the Residency was caused by the British East India Tea Company annexing the state of Oudh and kicking out the leocal Muslim leadership. This and less than considerate actions towards Muslim and Hindu religion led to the outbreak of rebellion. The siege was eventually broken by Sir Colin Campbell. A consequence of the rebellion, as well as the atrocoties committed by the British in it's aftermath, was the dissolution of the British East India Companywas dissolved and India governed directly by the Crown. Lucknow turned out to ... read more
February 10th 2010
Well we got a few little surprises during our stay in Lucknow, the first was more embarrassment more than anything but a funny story to have but we will get to that in a moment. We were supposed to be staying with the father of our host from Delhi but since we were completely no relying on the train to drop us of in Lucknow within a 5 hour time frame to let him know what time we would arrive we decided to stay in a hostel. But we still wanted to be able to meet him for dinner that evening. Soon enough we got in contact with him and a few hours later he had organised for us to be picked up by a couple of his workers and we were wizzed of to what ... read more
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mijn ryzoom van lopende zaken in India
Published: October 22nd 2009Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Lucknow
October 21st 2009
Deze map is in het Nederlands en is bedoeld voor mezelf als feedbacksysteem over de eventuele vooruitgang van "lopende zaken" of ontwikkelingen in India. Een ryzoom is een object met wortelstructuur. Mijn ryzoom van lopende zaken in India bestaat uit de volgende vertakkingen: 1. Ga ik wel of niet ingeschreven geraken voor de twee afstandsopleidingen waarvoor ik gekandideerd heb: Urdu Journalistiek, een jaaropleiding georganiseerd in Lucknow en een Master in Urdu georganiseerd door de vooraanstande Urdu-universiteit in Hyderabad, Maulana Azad National Urdu University. 2. Zal het offbeat-tourism project in New Delhi dat ik samen met Abhinav aan het ontwikkelen ben, van de grond geraken? 3. Hoe zal de tour die ik zal begeleiden voor het Zuiderhuis verlopen? 4. Ik ga stage volgen bij een tweetalig Hindi-Urdu krantje - ben benieuwd wat dat zal geven! 5. Yusuf, ... read more
October 21st 2009
Hi, I'm checking how this blog is functioning, being a semi-techo-illiterate, I'm oblivious to techno-obviousness :-) I'm have been trying to get a facebookpage online and I'm not really sure if it actually is online... My intention is to import a little bit of Belgian surrealism into Lucknow, Northern India - a city I have chosen to further Study Hindi and Urdu through an internship, private coursework and immersion into the social and cultural life of lucknow. This city, although attractive in itself, doesn't seem to attract a lot of visitors except those studying Urdu. Surreal is the fact that almost all students are Americans... Lucknow has a kind of "past glory" ambiance and although there're some 3 million people living in Lucknow, it's a actually a very relaxed city with parcs, trees and beatifull mosks. ... read more
June 19th 2009
i happened to reach pangot while exploring some quite jungle after kilburry nainital . and i found pangot as the best place on earth , for peace , soliltude in the natural lap of beautiful hills . there i found lot of beautiful cottages and affordable budgeted plan for longer stay . we stayed in janardan resort , ( janardanpangot.co.cc ) , which was under construction and found it very comfortable . What is Pangot? Pangot, a beautiful hamlet in the Kumaon hills, Situated in the midst of beautiful high rise hills , 15 km from Nainital . Pangot is the right place for nature-lovers and bird-watchers to spend in paradise . It’s more like a small town having typical village houses of the Kumaon region, a beautiful village temple, a village post-office and population of ... read more
Lucknow & Bara Imambara: Lost in the Labyrinth
Published: March 14th 2009Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Lucknow
March 14th 2009
The training for our service project took place in the town of Lucknow, which is the capitol of the province of Uttar Pradesh. The northern province of Uttar Pradeshi is India’s most populous state with 166 million (2001 census) and is referred to as the cow belt or Hindu belt. Lucknow has the sprawling congestion that comes with 3 and ½ million residents, but there are some real gems of history tucked away in Lucknow. One such gem is the Bara Imambara, built in the 1780s by the Nawabs who took control of this area after the fall of the Mughal empire. it is a colossal but decaying tomb which has courtyards, gardens, gates, a large step well and a mosque. Most interesting part of the visit was a walk through a maze of stairways, ... read more
Maybe we weren't meant to leave just yet.
Published: January 11th 2009Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Lucknow
December 13th 2008
Lucknow has been full of wonderful surprises! TOTALLY DELICIOUS FOOD: Roomali rotis (paper thin breads), mutton kebabs (for the carnivores), raita, rogan josh (more lamb meatiness) and tandoori chicken. The little tip we got from an American/Indian dental student---Dastarkwan and Tunday Kebab sent Guillaume into a euphoric eating FRENZY! FANTASTIC SIGHTS:The fabulously designed fantasy school, La Martiniere. Looks like Hogwarts school for witches and wizards. Fully equipped with giant lion statues perched high above the entrance (no longer with smoke pouring out of their mouths when the furnace is turned on, as it scared the locals) and great cannons seemingly protecting the well uniformed young school boys below. Also we stopped by the Bara Imambara. A crumbling old tomb, with gorgeous archways, a magnificent mosque and also featuring a frustratingly complicated labyrinth. As t... read more
