Once Upon a Lucknow: People, Places & Imprints of a Vanishing City - Softcover

Rizwan, Mr Syed Mohammad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798173937001

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Once Upon a Lucknow: People, Places & Imprints of a Vanishing City is a journey through a city remembered, observed and slowly transformed by time.
In this distinctive collection of essays, stories and verse, Syed Rizwan moves between personal memory and the larger landscape of Lucknow‐ its old neighbourhood, markets, institutions, landmarks and people. From Aminabad and Chowk to Hazratganj and La Martiniere, familiar places emerge not merely as settings, but as witnesses to lives and times that are steadily receding from view.
Yet this is more than a book of nostalgia or local history. Alongside recollections of a chang8ng Lucknow are short stories about love, loss, eccentricity, human frailty, humour and the unexpected turns of ordinary life, together with verse that ranges beyond the city to reflect upon a wider human world.
Written with affection but without sentimentality, Once Upon a Lucknow preserves the small details that formal histories often leave behind- the people one knew, the places one frequented, the habits of another age, and the impressions that remain long after the world that created them has changed.
Part memoir, part social observation, part fiction and verse, this is ultimately a book about memory and the passage of time- and about a Lucknow that may be vanishing from its streets, but survives in the stories of those who remember.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798173937001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178