Saturday, August 8, 2009

Hyderabad

Hyderabad is too hot in summers and too cold in winters. The city is bigger and spread in a large area. Cinema is big time pass in not only hyderabad but in entire Andhra Pradesh.

There is a huge gap between rich and poor here. Everyone here wants to become rich. So Businessmen here are a bit unethical. Even a small shop owner takes 1 or 2 rupees more for the cool drinks giving you the reason of company not pays them for keeping the drinks cool. My newspaper boy everymonth collects 5 to 10 rupees extrafor the Economic times i have subscribed.

We live in the outskirts of hyderabad. Here for 3000 we got a house with one bedroom hall and very small kitchen. Its near to main road so despite many obstacles we decided to stay here. Moreover the owner rarely complains about the neatness.

The main city is almost 14-15 kms from where we stay. We rarely go that side because most of the things we need we get in sorroundings. When I came to this city this area was not so developed but now almost big brands have opened their outlets.

We dont get variety of food as in Bangalore. Hence most of the times we eat at roadsides in the mornings. These Roadside hotels mostly operate till 11 in the morning. Dosa and Idly are the specialities. For 10 Rupees we get a thin plain Dosa and for 12 Rupees we get Egg dosa. Most of the times we eat 1 Eggdosa and a plain dosa which fills the stomach for 5-6 hrs.

Cinema Industry in Andhrapradesh is bigger and even for second shows theatres are crowded. Every star have their fan following. Most of the big stars release a film in almost 1 1/2 year and the films pull huge crowds. Most of the films are mass and Telugu film directors know well how to play with emotions.

When Bangalore was crowded with software companies and when the city couldn't provide proper infrastructure few companies looked at Hyderabad. So as this city has proximity to Bangalore, IT Stepped in to Hyderabad which made few middle class people become rich. Many people went to foriegn countries.

Girls of Hyderabad are a bit traditional than Bangalore. Most of them wear Salwars here. Almost Everybody are attracted to IT.

Andhrapradesh is bigger state in south India. There is a demand for separate Telangana state but the movement is losing its streak because no one really wants a split because there is no big cause for the separate state. This was reflected in poor perfromance of the Telangana separatist parties in the recent Elections. Most of the agriculture happens in Godavari region and parts of krishna river basin. North Andhra areas like karimnagar Medak face drought like situation and here poverty is high. Royalseema is another region where there is lesser irrigated area.

At first i didnt like the state and city much but as i got few friends here , slowly i am liking the city. The state has a culture and struggle to achieve something in any route which is delaying me to leave the state.

Monday, March 16, 2009

coastal karnataka

Beauty lies in coastal areas. Though I am not generalising most of the coastal areas in the world are beautiful. The sceneraies are good, at one side there will be natural fauna another side sea. It would be a nice time pass to stare at sea.
Karnataka too has a big coastal line which it shares with arabian sea. It has a stretch of 300 kms. some one told me it has some 10 ports, 1 major and rest minor. People here speak mainly two languages Tulu and Konkani.
Ok this information is available on wikipedia no i feel no need to reiterate here. so the focus area is on the beauty of coastal area. i just list out what all i like here. I will start from girls, ok  from a long time i used to hear mangalore girls are beautiful. ok here Mangalore i mean entire Daksin kannada region including udupi district. so when i came to Udupi for the first time, what ever i had heard about coastal belt girls was 100% true. Not every girl is beautiful but most of them have attractive faces. Here one should not confuse with Manipal girls. One can make a distinction between both by their skin tone and the quality of dressing.

Next thing i like about this region is the sea. Looking deeply into sea would be a give a relaxing experience. The other thing which attracted me is the weather. Being from Bangalore some how i feel mangalore weather is different. Here its too hot is summer. Hot in the sense high humidity.
In summers one always feel to throw away his clothes. such is the humid here. But some how i like this. 

Other thing i like is the rainy season. It pours it pours it pours. But its not continous. Its like some one is taking a big Bucket full of water from the sea and sprinkling over city. so there would be a relaxing time till the bucket fills. No one moves out without an umbrella during rainy season. Raincoats are not a fair option as for girls it would be difficult to maintain the long coats and as its not continous rainfall, during the breaks there would be sudden rise in temperature making it irritating to have a raincoat over us.

Few things need to be improved here like public transport.High speed of these buses is scary. Though private operators are doing very well.lack of government entry into transport can be seen. Roads need to be widened for a more safer journey. Ok it will take some time for these minor changes as people of these two districts are well educated and no MLA or MP can escape without serving people during their tenure.

Ok enough for now..hope i can post some more soon.