Hyderabad Experience-Part 3

After shifting to Hyderabad, i stayed in a Guest House located in MLA colony, Banjara Hills. This colony is located at a slightly higher altitude and roads are serpentine.

This incident which i am sharing, happened when i was returning from office to the guest house. It was quite late at night. I took a shared auto. There were 2 co-passengers with me in the Auto. The Auto driver started his journey. He was driving as if he was in a formula 1 race. Zip-Zap-Zoop through the potholes. I thought, "ok, Must be drunk". Some how he managed to reach the destination. I got down from auto. One of the co-passenger also alighted.

When i went ahead to pay my fare, i was shocked. The Rikshaw driver was SLEEPING. I had to wake him Up.."OO Bhaeyaa...Uthooo Subbah ho gai....paisaa nahi lenaa kyaa..". Finally he managed to woke up. I paid the fare and left.

Just imagine, in what state of mind the third passenger was..He Hee... :)

My Hyderabad Experience-Part 2

This experience relates to the way traffic operates in Hyderabad. The infrastructure in Hyderabad is quite good. The roads are wide enough to enjoy the drive. But unfortunately people there don't follow rules as much as possible. Driving in Hyderabad is literally a chaos. It’s like being in a video game. You can expect vehicles coming from any direction.
I got hit twice, because while crossing the road i managed to lookout for vehicles coming from one direction only.
Sometimes I wondered whether they follow the US driving style or UK(which we follow). I think they followed both. Its like a practice session. Practice makes man perfect(No sure abt women :)). So you see its easy to drive in US/UK after getting a Visa(AP is famous for large count of US visa).
Rear view mirrors here are absolute no-no. Bikers will either remove the mirrors or rotate it by 180 degrees (To check for there hair style while driving). Even cars keep them closed. If they dare to keep them open chances are that it would get damaged.

My friend had a strange experience. While driving his car he committed a silly mistake of keeping the rear view mirrors open. When he stopped on a Red signal(Strange view there). One person who was on scooter came towards his car, closed the mirrors and said "Kya pura raasta lekee chaloge kya".
Thumb rule 1: Don't dare to use the rear view mirrors. Its a waste of money.

My Hyderabad Experience-Part 1

These are some of my experiences when i stayed in hyderabad.
Part 1: House Search...a funny experience
Since it would have been really difficult to stay in a Zopadi(Hut), i started out for some sort of shelter. My requirement was 1bhk house. Me and my friend Imtiaz were suppose to share the flat. Ok...
So we started a search. We thought "hmmm Hyderabad, would be quite cheap and finding a house here won't be much of an headache@(Considering that we had a pretty good experience in Bangalore ;)). "We all know how easy it is to find a house in Bangalore@. Anyway that was a sarcastic remark. Since my office was in Banjara Hills road No 1, i was looking for a house in nearby localities only.

First thing is you wont find a 1BHK house(quite difficult) and even if you find one, there is another problem. Typical House owner's statement "Sorry we can't give rooms to bachelors". Since i was not married and telling a lie that me and Imtiaz are married was out of question(Since both of us were and are straight :) ).As, we did not get a house near to Banjara Hills. We went to Mehdipatnam (Place 2km from Banjara Hills). This place has a lot of hostels (Girl's hoste to be precisel :)). So we said ok, this place is the best than the rest. We went to a big Bungalow which said "One floor available on rent". The maid was showing us the room, the house owner appeared like a phantom...swisshhhh. His looks were quite terrifying...Big Body and Big Dadi... I mean beard...the first questioned he asked was, "What’s your name". I said “Anand”, my friend said “Naveen”. He said with a cool voice "Hindu ko ghar nahi Dena". And then he started scolding his maid in Urdu. I said ok, “Is one Musalman Ok for you"(as my friend Imtiaz follows Isalm). He said no, I want every tenant to be Muslim. We had no options but to say Khuda Hafiz to him.
We felt bad, But what to do, for some people religion is more imporatant than valuing a human being..... So we continued our search. Finally we found a house in Masab Tank/Banjara Hills Rd 12. The owner was a True follower of Islam and was really Nice person. He used to stay in Mumbai and liked Maharashtrians a lot. So he gave us a 2 bhk flat for a nominal rate. In Hyderabad, one thing that is better than Bangalore, "You need to give just 2 months deposit as compared to 10 Months here in Bangalore".

Me and my friend Imtiaz had good time staying in Hyderabad.
Others experience follows in Part 2: