Tag: Roomi Darwaza

By Haider Abbas Lucknow is certainly in the line of cities like Mumbai or Kolkata, on which there are numerous books written, on their respective people, places, monuments, music or folklore, but imagine these cities without monuments like Bombay Victoria Terminus or Kolkata Victoria Memorial and feel the bewilderment, this moment is now almost on the anvil for the people of Lucknow or UP! As the emblematic insignia of Roomi Darwaza aka Roomi Gate, the proverbial ‘Gateway to Constantinople’, is in dire straits, as the monument is very soon is...