Quintessential Hyderabadi

This article featured in Deccan Chronicle.Its absolutely hilarious and amazingly true . Have some fun :)


Ever wondered what sets a Hyderabadi apart from the rest of the country? Read on to find out.

* Your address reads 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22), when you actually live in the second house beside Zamzam Cafe in the lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.

* Your street has at least one bandi that serves Chinese delicacies such as ‘vegetable soft needles’, ‘navrotten kurma’, ‘chicken manchewurea’ or ‘American chompsee’.

* When somebody asks you for directions to go anywhere your answer is always, ‘seedha chale jao.’

* You can speak Hindi, Urdu, Hinglish, Telenglish… everything except Telugu, fluently.

* You ask the waiter to get you ‘achaar’ even if you are sitting at a lavish continental dinner.

* You order for a tea just after having had a caramel custard.

* You have at least one Srinivas, Prasad, Reddy, Raju or Rao in your neighbourhood.

* You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.

* Every time somebody gives you some good news, you ask, ‘Party kab hain?’

* You refer to any past as ‘parso’, be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.

* Even 11 am is subah subah.

* You label your boss as ‘Dimakh Kharab.’

* You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.

* You look at the ‘fixed price’ board and ask ‘dene ka bolo.’

* You feel offended by someone looking at you (Kaiku ghoorraa re?)

* You always say chup be, mooh dekh aaine mein.

* You say ‘Light le baap’, however grave the situation is.

* You feel it’s your Nizami birthright to show your hand and stop the traffic while you cross the road.

* You can hang out at an Irani cafe the whole day after ordering one-cup tea and an empty saucer for your friend and you.

* You have to eat biryani atleast once a week.

* You keep saying nakko, hou, kaiku and hallu.

* You tell your friend ‘abhi aathu mein’ when both of you know you won’t be back.