All roads are paths that sometimes lead to new discoveries. In Hyderabad the road itself is the discovery. They also lead one to several discoveries- that potholes can go three feet deep, that traffic jams can last for hours, that most Hyderabadis leave their brains at home when they come out on the road and so on. Every time you get on the road one can look forward to discover something new. Some of the discoveries one can expect to make on the roads of Hyderabad are:
- that there are more beggars at traffic junctions than are people willing to give them alms
- that all cargo more than ten feet in length (like pipes and iron rods) are always transported on slow moving rickshaws
- that city buses always stop in the middle (exactly middle) of the road at bus stops (one has to be a bus driver to know why)
- that most two wheeler riders carry their helmets either at the back of the bike or on their laps
- that Hyderabadi men spit all the time, and from wherever they can
- that Hyderabadi men peep inside autorickshaws like they expect to find Deepika Padukone inside
- that all those who drive the Premier Padmini cars are invariably above seventy year old and wearing the kind of spects with frames that are bigger than windshield of their cars
- that not even the cops follow the traffic rules here
- that all Hyderabadis are terrific gawkers- they gawk at everything in view
The list goes on endlessly…
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and I wish President will visit Hyderabad often. I found our roads were filled up temperorily, beggars removed from our roads, clean well lit roads, and many cops to see the flow fo traffice.. heaven..
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