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.

Isko mazaak bolke lena, Kaali- peeli tension nahin lenay ka, kya? Aur isko personal nahin lanay ka, kya?

Bahuth arsay kay baad, parson-parson (april mein) Hyderabad ko jaa ke aaya........... kya mazaa aaya boss........ kiththa bhi bolay to kam hain!

Very old one (published in CD a few years ago) but a gold one.
Anyways, nice to see you posting again.

Peace to all

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

Boss thum hyderabad ke nahin hothay. Kya bolay tho, aise kaali-peeli "eh pehle say pada" bolke, ham logaan nahin bolthay, kya.

Chodo in baathon ko......... tamilkuravan bhai, kaise ho? India mein ho kya? Zaroor miss karthe hogay Canada ko (aur Ikea ko bhi), kya?

I am more glad to see TK's posting.

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A Delhite in Toronto