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A Typical Hyderabadi
- Mr. shyam shooter

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Hyderabadi : one who drinks the water of Gandipet Hyderabad is a charming city with a most delightfully unhurried air to it. A city where ambition left its nemesis, satisfaction behind and moved towards another civilization. To the average Hyderabadi, time is something to be savoured, not lost to the dizzying speed of modern life. He's a left lane man, the Hyderabadi, driving his scooter contendedly while the limousines hurry past. He cannot, for example, understand the fulfillment that the Bombayman gets in scrambling aboard the 6:18 fast from Churchgate, his left perennially aspiring to be ahead of his right. Or that obsessive, all-encompassing urge to get 99.3 percent in the optionals in the 12th standard. He'd much rather let a crowded bus to go by and continue talking about Madhuri Dixit in Tezaab. Or better still, walk across the Irani restaurant on the corner and chat over a bun-maska and one-by-two chai. On a good day he would rather add a pauna instead. Again one-by-two. The Hyderabadi is invariably, therefore a satisfied man. Even laid back. The urge to conquer that comes from an unsatiated mind is a largely alien concept to him. He is more likely to aspire for happiness and having got it, share it At his daughter's wedding he would invite the entire community to a lavish biryani and a baghara-baingan meal, most probably in an open yard, rather than to just an ice-cream in a classy hall of a five star hotel. To him that would be impersonal. It would not be symbolic of his daughter's wedding. He is more likely to be polite and unassuming. And you will always be aap to him; only occasionally tum but never ever tu. That would be sacrilege. Or a concession made to someone very close. Correspondingly he would be greatly offended if somebody addressed him as tu. The nawabs always said aap and the Hyderabadi has kept the tradition alive. The politeness, the hospitality and the simplicity are the typical characteristics. But most important the inability to be calculating and devious. There is no vendetta in his mind, just a deep belief that those who commit a wrong will repent. They are often caught up in a world that belongs to yesterday. Their desires were tame not ferocious, their vision blurred by the idylic world they lived in. Success wasn't the aphrodisiac to them that it is to others and they did not, therefore, have the determination to keep clawing against the odds. As one famous advertising professional puts it,' Hyderabad is for people who want to get up at nine in the morning, stroll into the office and have a cup of tea. Its not for someone with a fire in his belly. I'd give anything to be able to live there'.

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