Hyderabadi

This is dedicated to All my dear Hyderabad friends the city I am born in and admire more than any place that I saw till date…





You are a real hyderabadi, if....



1. Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH

number 56-678/4A/B-22),while you actually live in the

second house beside zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand

Theatre on SP Road.



2. You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it

is a theatre workshop, food mela, consumer expo,

designer jewellery show, science show or an automobile convention.



3. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel

that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles",

"Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".



4. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody

asks you for directions,whether it is to Malakpet,

Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.



5. You come across tailors sporting the board:

Immidiot delivery in two days onli.



6.You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish,

except Telugu, fluently.



7.You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle'

even if you are

s! itting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with

exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese

cuisines.



8. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel

custard.



9. You have at least one Srinivas,Prasad, Raju or

Venkatesh within six square feet. OR you have at least

one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with

these names.



10. You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in

the US in software.



11. Every time somebody gives you a piece of good

news, the first thing

you ask them is 'Party kab hain miya ?'



12. Refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or

long before

three hundred years.



13. You call 11 AM as subah subah.



14. You label your boss as 'Dimakh Kharab'



15. And it doesn't matter where in the "Gulf/middle

east" you are leaving you always tell you are going to

"Dubai". (I know of one family who still keep telling

everyone their son is in "uno! Dubai mein hai" but he

is physically in Yemen for the past 5 years. [Smile]



16. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on

time.



17. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask

'dene ka bolo'



18. If you do not eat rice at least once a day you

will die.(Nothing other than Rice is considered as a

meal)



19. If you feel offended by someone looking at you

(Kaiku ghoor raa miya ?)



20. If you think you are a born shayer and use some

typical filmi batein in stylish urdu and crack some

romantic jokes.



21. While someone does this, you say to yourself

'chubbe saale ,mooh dekh aaine mein, tere ku kaun pat

thi, pataaney waala tho main hi hoon'



22. If you can say the typical "Light le le baap" and

be cool without analyzing what the situation is.



23. If you feel its legal and your Nizami birth right

to show yourhand and stop the traffic (better than !

an traffic police)while you cross the road whenever

and wherever you like.



24. If you can hang out in a Irani cafe the whole day

after ordering one cup tea and a empty for yourself

and your dear friend and chat like thats the last day

with each other.



25. If you eat Paradise Biryani or bawarchi Biryani

atleast once in a week.



26. If you go to the Petrol Bunk and say "Panch Point

Single Oil maroo yaaro" and hand over 15 bucks.



27. If you can relate the words 'Nakko', 'Hou' 'Kaiku'

,'hallu' and make these the integral part of your

vocabulary.



28. If you tell your friend that you will 'just come

back' ("abbhi aathu mein") and your friend knows that

either you will take a couple of hours or not come

back at all.



29. you end up watching every movie you come across ,

and end up saying oh! that was good , but it could be

better if it was made that way



30. You are reading this and secretly admitting that

you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi [Smile] You

know one thing..... Once a Hyderabadi, always a

Hyderabadi... and you will forward this site for sure

to Hyderabadis ... since only they can relate to it.