write a travelogue on Lucknow
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❥Lucknow, the city of Nawabs , capital of U.P. and a place loaded with rich cultural heritage and royal etiquette had been on my bucket list for quite a while. It's something like that thing in your subconscious mind, which nags at times but you never make a conscious effort to achieve it.
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Lucknow has changed considerably. The hand-emroidered chikan work is still as famous but the chowk is now teeming with sheer humanity. The kulfis and gajak at Aminabad still taste the same, as does the chaat at Hazratganj. But the years have taken their toll and the tongas have been replaced by cycle-rickshaws weaving between two and four wheelers in the chaotic traffic. The station still stands untouched by time, the Bhulbhulaiya still spells romance, but the lions have lost their voice and need to be set free, and the monkeys have long fled or been captured.I know Lucknow well. I lived there in two separate stints of about two years each. I have seen the city expand, the colonies grow, and I have seen and understood the socio-political ethos of the heartland of India. Nowhere is Hindi spoken more beautifully, nowhere are the strains of Urdu more musical to the ears, nowhere is the old-world charm of courtesy more honoured. The kakori kababs prepared by the best chefs in five star hotels don't quite melt in your mouth as in Awadh, where the nawabs may have long gone, their traditions diluted, but something of them still lives in the shadows of the history of Lucknow