What's New in Hyderabad?

Last week, I found there’s growing evidence that people are realizing that there’s life in Musheerabad after all. After Cafe Coffee Day, now Musheerabad (Padmaraonagar to be exact) has a Jawed Habib Branch. I learnt this from a handbill that dropped out of the newspaper one morning sometime last week. Though I have no actual need to visit Jawed Habib I was glad about the development. According to the handbill Jawed Habib now has branches at Banjara Hills, Himayatnagar, Karkhana, Kompally, Koti, Madhapur, Marredpally, Mehdipatnam, Penderghast Road, Srinagar Colony, Tarnaka and also, quite intriguingly, at Moosarambagh. I can understand a Jawed Habib branch at Kompally, but Moosarambagh? The only thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Moosarambagh is the Musi nala, which, in case you didn’t know, is the birth place of almost all mosquitoes in Hyderabad and is widely regarded as the Mosquito Headquarters of Hyderabad.

More Glitter
It wouldn’t amount to an underestimation to say that there could be anything between 500 to 1000 gold and jewellery stores in Hyderabad alone. One could think the number is enough to cater to the needs of the Hyderabadi crowd since gold isn’t something one gotta have in order to breathe properly though the women folk might differ from that view. Anyway, finding that these outlets aren’t enough somebody in the jewellery trade got the bright idea to organize an 'Hitex International Gems and Jewellery Expo' out in Madhapur. According to the news item from where I got this information, there would be over a hundred exhibitors from Amritsar, Agra, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad etc including exhibitors from Myanmar and Thailand with stalls selling everything from gold, gems, beads, ornaments, pearls, jewellery etc. In short it means that there is a whole lot of glitter on sale so quite naturally you’ve got to pay even to look at it. The entry fees of Rs 200, I’m sure, isn’t a deterrent to the sort of crowd that would have driven all the way to Hitex from places all over Hyderabad and beyond to buy more stuff. In case you were planning to go there, alas, today was the last day.

Yet Another Hotel
So while that’s the latest development on the gold and jewellery front, there’s another development on the hotel front. A new hotel with a mouthful of a name has come up at Madhapur. I heard that Aditya Sarovar Premier, a complete hotel with rooms, a pool and a poolside grill, 24 hour coffee shop, 10,000 SFT banquet facilities, conference facilites, and of course, an oriental restaurant and lounge bar has quietly come up in Hyderabad. This too is located at Madhapur, which everyone in Hyderabad knows, isn’t too far from Jubilee Hills. So, the Jubilee Hills crowd has one more place to fill up in case they are feeling too bored with the places in Jubilee Hills.

So that's what is new in Hyderabad.

Next post is on Wednesday titled 'Lunch by Accident at the Grand Kakatiya'