PATA-Holes

Now I know the reason why our engineers haven’t filled up the potholes and kept them open (and growing) until now. They might have felt like adding another tourist site to the already existing ones in Hyderabad. I got this idea when I read about the PATA meet in Hyderabad. I guess the engineers wanted to show the tourists the depths we can reach to keep up the reputation of Hyderabad high.

The potholes so lovingly cultivated by the engineers have ensured that on one who attended the PATA ever returns to the city again. If they had seen more of the potholed roads they’d never even think of Hyderabad, forget about visiting or asking others to visit. I think that with the kind of potholes the engineers managed to create not just the delegates who attended the PATA meet, no one from their country would ever want to step into Hyderabad.

So that is how the engineers have managed to do their bit for the tourism scene in the state. But for once I am on the side of the engineers on this issue. As if it isn’t enough craziness driving on the road, what with enormous potholes on one side and totally brainless drivers on the other side, we’ll now have tourists to deal with. That’s one more thing for us to gawk as if we don’t have enough to gawk at- from hoardings to people traveling in autorickshaws. When we see tourists (even those from Africa) we gawk at them like they’re from outer space.

We Hyderabadis will never change.