Author: Arijit Bose

‘Food Farmer’ Revant Himatsingka Advises: Read the Food Label, Not Just the Packaging

Arijit Bose

Practical tips for healthy eating shared at a nutrition awareness session by FICCI FLO Lucknow Lucknow: In today’s fast-paced life, amidst the rising prevalence of lifestyle diseases, one habit stands out as crucial: reading the label before purchasing packaged food products. Carrying this very message, Revant Himatsingka—a nutrition awareness activist who has gained nationwide recognition as ‘Food Farmer’—visited the city on Saturday at the special invitation of FICCI FLO Lucknow. At a nutrition awareness session held at Hotel Taj, he taught members the essentials of becoming healthy and informed consumers.…

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Lucknow Connection Worldwide Steps In With Essentials for Children at Drishti Samajik Sansthan

Arijit Bose
Lucknow Connection Worldwide

Lucknow, August 1: Members of Lucknow Connection Worldwide (LCWW) visited Drishti Samajik Sansthan in Jankipuram Extension this week, bringing along a batch of everyday essentials for the children who live there — bedsheets, sanitary napkins, clothing for boys and girls, and a few other items the institution had asked for. Admin Neerja Shukla and Admin Kailash Srivastava led the visit, along with members Vinod Srivastava, Sanjay Srivastava, Neeta Tekwani, Shashi Srivastava and Roopa Srivastava. The team didn’t just hand over the supplies and leave — they sat with the children…

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When Class V Took Over the Stage — And Made Patriotism Feel Personal

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: There’s something different about watching ten-year-olds try to capture what love for their country means. At Srijan Hall, Class V students of Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Goel Campus, did exactly that with their annual presentation, “A Tribute to Our Nation” — and by most accounts, they pulled it off with more heart than most adults manage. The show opened quietly, almost deliberately so. A prayer titled “Whispers of Faith” set a calm, reflective tone before anything else happened — the kind of opening that asks an audience to settle…

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From Haryana’s Wrestling Heartland to India’s Rugby Pitch: Mohit Khatri’s Long Road to the Olympics

Arijit Bose

Chandigarh: Haryana is wrestling country. Everyone knows that. So when a kid from Kundli village in Sonipat district ends up chasing an Olympic dream in rugby of all sports, it’s worth asking how that happened — and the answer, in Mohit Khatri’s case, comes down to a mix of family influence, a lot of losing before winning, and sheer stubbornness. It Started With His Brother Mohit didn’t set out to play rugby. Like most kids in his neighbourhood, his weekends belonged to football. What changed things was his older brother,…

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A Terrorism-Free India and World — How?

Arijit Bose

By Sita Ram Sharma “Chetan” / translation from RavivarDelhi Hindi Filth is filth. Dress it up however you like, it’s never going to become food. Poison is poison — no rebrand turns it into nectar. Terrorism works the same way. There’s no context, no situation, where it becomes acceptable. That should be obvious to the whole world by now, without needing self-interest or endless debate to get in the way. And yet here we are — a 21st-century world that thinks of itself as intellectually and economically advanced, still somehow…

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UP Wants Tourism to Do More Than Just Draw Pilgrims — It Wants It to Create Jobs

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: For years, tourism in Uttar Pradesh has meant one thing above all: pilgrims. Now the state government wants it to mean something else too — jobs, startups, and a slice of the state’s push toward a trillion-dollar economy. Under a new scheme called the ‘Tourism Startup Unit’ initiative, the government is trying to give young entrepreneurs a reason to build businesses around tourism rather than just work in it. The idea fits into Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s broader ambition of making the sector “smart” and experience-driven, rather than something…

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UP Minister Pushes for Wider Publicity Drive on Disability Welfare Schemes

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Divyangjan Empowerment and Backward Classes Welfare (Independent Charge) Narendra Kashyap chaired a meeting of the department’s publicity grant committee, calling for a much bigger push to get information about disability welfare schemes down to the block, tehsil, district and divisional level. Kashyap said the department has decided to run a large-scale awareness campaign to spread the word about disability prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and welfare schemes across the state. Currently, only ₹35 lakh is budgeted for this publicity work in 2026-27 — a figure…

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Minister Narendra Kashyap Chairs Meeting on Surgical Grants for Divyangjan, Flags Gap in Post-Surgery Speech Therapy

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s Minister of State for Divyangjan Empowerment and Backward Classes Welfare (Independent Charge), Narendra Kashyap, chaired a meeting of the Surgical Grant Committee at his government office in the Vidhan Sabha, reviewing the state’s support scheme for disability-related surgeries. Officials told the minister that 340 applications had come in for cochlear implant surgery. Funds are currently in hand for 200 of these, and a proposal for the additional money needed to cover the rest has already gone to the state government — officials said they expect the funds…

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Lucknow University Education Dept Marks Green Drive With Sapling Plantation

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: Faculty, scholars and students at Lucknow University’s Department of Education spent a day planting  saplings across campus, part of an ongoing green initiative called ‘Gyanankur Guru Vatika.’ Dr. Hemendra Kumar Singh organised the drive, which was presided over by department head Prof. Shravan Kumar. Speaking at the event, Kumar told students that plantation drives alone won’t solve climate change or pollution — the real work, he said, lies in looking after what’s already been planted, and he asked students to commit to that upkeep. Several senior university officials turned…

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Skill Training at Brahma Kumaris Helps Rural Women Move Toward Self-Reliance

Arijit Bose

Lucknow: The Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow — an institute under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India — along with the Laghu Udyog Bharti Women’s Unit, Lucknow, and the Inner Wheel Club of Trans Gomti, jointly organised a rural women entrepreneurs’ awareness programme and a free health check-up camp at the Brahma Kumaris Rajyoga Training Centre in Gulzar Upvan. During the event, 20 beneficiaries who had completed an advanced tailoring training course for rural women run by the institute at Brahma Kumaris were presented with…

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