1. You find good old autos with ornate paintings of peacocks and “Horn OK Please”; with rusty iron rods pointing at you from all possible places, threatening to pierce through you at any moment. The worst part is when these Autos from the Pre Independence era struggle to go over a speed breaker because you are inside.
2. The roads are SO wide with not many vehicles on road, clean and yet a little too scary. You will know what I mean if you have gone shopping at Pondy Bazaar.
3. You notice that almost all shops are named either Venkateshwara or Mahalakshmi and all hotels named after synonyms of the word ‘Chef’.
4. You suddenly wonder if you have been transported back in time when the Auto-walas ask for Meter charge with Govrnment auto fare cards that resemble Lunch Menus.
5. You find Thums Up Ads splashed everywhere. Everybody ordering Thums Up as if it is water. And There you were thinking Pepsi and Coke were the only esistent Cola brands.
6. You find a Hookah shaped mug in the loo. Very Hyderabadi you would think. But. Er. Manouvering that thing in the loo itself, you will learn, requires Nizami strategy.
7. You begin to think everybody in the city changed their name to “Babu”.
8. You find lady Bus Conductors!
9. You feel proud about great grand Mount Road back home.
10. You realize that the Nizams got all their strategical skills from eating the Hyderabadi Biriyani. MAN! The only excuse you havet to NOT eat it when youre in Hyderabad would be your death.
11. You know its boiling hot around the place and you DON’T SWEAT. Not a drop.
#10: SO TRUE!
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