MY Home Hyderabad Take #3

Hello Dreamers
How are you all doing?? Am doing just fine.

Its true that when you are away from home, you realize it’s the best place to be. Same with me as I know miss Hyderabad so much. After reading Sawan’s post some days before about the City of Pearls, I remembered that I have started writing about my home in the land of dreams. So here I am again, back writing about my home, Hyderabad.

After 2 months of my stay in Hyderabad, I realized that it so special to be there. Not that the city has developed so much and you have everything around, but the people there are so special that you fall in love with my city which I have since last 20 years.

Hyderabadis are happy people I have found so far. They find happiness in everything like a morning walk at the Necklace Road, shopping in Sultan Bazaar, yummy biryani, spicy kebabs and what not. One an average day, you can find them rushing to work in the morning but the evenings are definitely special with a cup of irani chai and bhajiya. Wow its awesome.

The only thing to complain in my city is the traffic but we are getting used to it. Even after driving for above two hours, we take the pleasure of the busy Hyderabad which is all awake till midnight.

One thing I can assure you, when you come to my city, you will never be lost. You get down the train or the bus, you find a friendly auto driver, waiting for you at the entrance taking you to the place you want to go and all the way describing you the city in the sweetest language on Earth…The Hyderabadi Hindi…if you think its just the hindi…then you are wrong…to know more about it visit my city…the city of pearls…!!!

Through this post, I salute the autowallahs of Hyderabad who make our days more special…!!!

My Home Hyderabad #Take 2

So finally I decided on what to start with to let you know about my city. The “Purana Pool” (Meaning: Old river)

Purana Pool is constructed some 450 years ago(around 1578) over the Musi river that flows across Hyderabad. Though it is now polluted very badly, it was the source of water in those days. It was the river of floods during heavy rains.

The history of Hyderabad says that the Nizams started the construction of the city from the Purana Pool. Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah, the Nizam King started the construction of the city for his love. The Prince Quli Qutub Shah loved a Hindu girl Bhagyamati who lived on the other side of the Musi river. Once due to heavy rains, the Musi flooded and drowned places near it. The bad rains frightened the prince and wanted to meet his love on the other side of Musi, but he couldn’t. So, later after the floods stopped, he took up the construction of Purana Pool over the river for better commution.

The new city then built was named Bhagyanagaram (as the girl was Bhagyamati) and after the prince married her, she was given the title Hyder and hence the new name Hyderabad (which means “Long live Hyder”).

So this is the start of my city based on love. Today, Purana Pool is the major road used for commution across the river even after 450 years. We are the Hyderabadis, the children of the great lovers. We are the fruits of the love planted some 450 years ago. We may have brought the whole world here, but we still admire our history and value the love which is the foundation of our city and yeah, Hyderabad is the place where Hindus and Muslims have been living together with love since ages.

Love is synonymous to Hyderabadis but yeah, exceptions are always there. But once you are in Hyderabad, you can find our love to the culture, love to the people, and love to our city all around.

So when you are in Hyderabad don’t forget to see the Purana Pool, they symbol of love of our Nizam king Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah and Bhagyamati Alias Hyder.
That’s all for today and see you soon the next time.

MY Home-Hyderabad…Take #1

Wow…finally my Land of Dreams is hosting this new series about my home city…the city where I had spent 22 years of my life…the city which has seen me grow up and the city that I have seen transforming..!!

Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, India. This city is special to me and to most of the people around the country. Diverse, colorful, happy, cheerful, developing, special these are the adjectives that define my city.

But what do I start with? The old city of magnificent Charminar, the purana pool, the Golconda fort, the Buddha statue, the museums or the new city of Cyberabad that has the IT hub HITEC city, the games village Gachibowli or the many universities or the always busy streets or the amazing street food or the biryanis and kebabs, or the amazing people where should I start??

Hyderabad is a place to be once in your life time…the reasons for this.... just follow this seriesand you will know... and yeah, you will definitely fall in love with my city too..!!!

But for now, I am leaving it here. Will be back very soon...with the amazing stories of my city, my home..!!!

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