Oudh, a historically cherished fragrance from the Middle East, is witnessing a global revival. Its cultural significance spans millennia, and it is now embraced by celebrities and luxury brands ...

While most of us are working from home, our days usually just go while completing morning chores and then starting with our office work. In this hectic life, we all deserve a break and should treat ...

A glimpse of the Oudh 1590 outlet in Noida.The decor follows the same Mughal look and feel done in dark shades of black, brown and red with gold and silver accents. Spread over an area of over 4,500sq ...

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true? By ...

Wearing pearl earrings and a large pair of glasses hiding kohl-lined pale, sinking eyes, an ageing nawab (person of high status), Naqi Mirza, popularly known as Nawab Babba Jani Sahib, weakly ...

Ali Raza's body was found on September 2, lying in an old, broken-down couch. New Delhi: In forests in the heart of Delhi, a family of three claiming to be the last descendants of the royal family of ...

For decades, they lived in a crumbling palace in Delhi, claiming to be the royal heirs to the fallen kingdom of Oudh. Who were they? The Malcha Mahal, a 14th-century hunting lodge in a thick forest in ...

“Indians, as a populace, are a smelly lot.” No, I didn’t say that; an international stand-up comic did. Yes, it’s a generalisation, one I’d like to vehemently refute (unless when I am queuing for a 6 ...

When the first outlet of Oudh 1590 opened in Deshapriya Park in 2013, it introduced neighbourhood dining for Awadhi cuisine. In 2017, the second Oudh opened near Vivekananda Park, its ornate archway a ...

OUDH PUNCH, or Avadh Punch, was an Urdu humour magazine. Launched on Jan 16, 1877 and published weekly from Lucknow, it used satire and humour as weapons against some social, political, linguistic and ...

On a spring afternoon in 2016, when I was working in India, I received a telephone message from a recluse who lived in a forest in the middle of Delhi. I knew about the royal family of Oudh. They were ...