The country’s oldest and finest artistic center, Lucknow has got a unique mixture of fine arts, literature, business activities and traditional features, and thus it is right to call the city as the ‘Golden City of the East.’
Lucknow, being the capital city of the biggest state Uttar Pradesh is one of the fastest growing city which is inundated with manufacturing, commercial, business, and multicultural activities… The commercial and residential centers are being spread on the both sides of the Gomti river, and Aminabad is the heart of the city, besides the newly flourishing inhabiting places like Southcity, Omaxe, Eldeco, etc… The city is popularly known for its universities, management institutions and research centers, as it has got the headquarters of the Indian organic center, and it also bags up one of the prominent management institutions like IIM on its side. Hence could be called as the hub of education and research institutions in the country.
Economy
The economy of the Lucknow city is been boosted by the flourishing business activities from technology organizations, manufacturing and processing industries, real estate boom, and through other traditional trade activities that are in turn specific to the city. It has acted as a good source of recruitment, henceforth many quality personnel are available abundant in here, thereby leading to the growth of BPOs and other IT support organizations in the city. The city is being continuously developed from all angles, be it an entertainment sector, commercial business segments, like shopping malls, theater complexes, etc… you could see people thriving in all the places. The Lucknow city could also be considered as the 6th largest city in the country and it bestows a considerable share in the country’s economic growth activity.
Tourist Attraction
The imperial architecture of the city and its splendid monuments attract people from all directions, say for example the Rumi Darwaza being the fine architectural style of Awadh, and the Chhota Imambara is one of the oldest and significant monuments of the city, etc… If you take a close look at these monuments, you could see that the monuments and architectural structures portray the significance of historical reigns of the state. The transport facilities in the city have been increasing tremendously to support the tourism activities in the city, which has also got plans for the high capacity mass transit system.
A Destination of Arts
The city had been an artistic and rhetoric inspiration for ages, the classical Indian dance, Kathak took a great shape from this place and it had been a big inspiration to the Bollywood film industry too. Many script writers, film makers, lyricists, musicians, etc… have been created in the country and the credit goes to the city. The Bhatkande Music Institute university is been named after the great musician Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande and it has never ceased its actions in attracting people from Sri Lanka, Nepal, and other countries to learn music in the university. The city is quiet popular for its ghazal music, drama institutions, music universities, besides journalism too. The newspaper namely, National Herald which had been started by the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, has been established from Lucknow. Moreover, all the major newspapers in the country have their offices in the city.