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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Are you a Hyderabadi?... then

  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. 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”.
  3. You come across tailors sporting the board: ‘Immidiot delivery in two days onli’.
  4. You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu, fluently.
  5. Your answer is ’seedha chale jao’ when somebody asks you for directions,whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
  6. Every time somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is ‘Davat kab hain ?’
  7. Refer to any past as ‘parso’, be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
  8. You call 11 AM as 'subah subah'.
  9. You label your boss as ‘Dimakh Kharab’
  10. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask ‘dene ka bolo’
  11. You feel offended by someone looking at you (Kaiku ghoor raa be?)
  12. You can say the typical “Light le le baap” and be cool without analyzing what the situation is.
  13. You go to the Petrol Bunk and say “Panch Point Single Oil maaro yaaro” and hand over 15 bucks.
  14. You can relate the words ‘Nakko’, ‘Hou’ ‘Kaiku’ ,’hallu’ and make these the integral part of your vocabulary.
  15. 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.
  16. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
  17. If you do not eat rice at least once a day you will die.(Nothing other than Rice is considered as a meal)
  18. You feel its legal and your Nizami birth right to show your hand and stop the traffic (better than a traffic police) while you cross the road whenever and wherever you like.
  19. You can hang out in a Irani cafe the whole day after ordering one cup tea and a empty saucer for yourself and your dear friend and you chat like thats the last day with each other.
  20. You eat Paradise Biryani or bawarchi Biryani atleast once in a week.