Jan 18, 2009

You are a true Hyderabadi if...

  • Published in August 2002, City Info
  • 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.
    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.
  • 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.
  • Your answer is \'seedha chale jao\' when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
  • You come across tailors sporting the board: Immidiot delivery in two days onli.
  • If you can speak Hindi, Urdu, English and Hyderabadi, except Telugu, fluently.
  • Your answer is \'not in my pockets\' when somebody asks you \'Where is XYZ?\'...and you also roll on the floor laughing at your joke.
  • If you ask the waiter to get you some \'Mango pickle\' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
  • You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
  • If you have at least one Srinivas, Raju or Venkatesh within six square feet. In other words, you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with these names.
  • If you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.
  • If everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is \'Party kab hain?\'
  • You are reading this and secretly admitting that you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi.

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