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  1. Hyderabad’s dangerous Outer Ring Road

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    These pictures were sent to us by a TSR member, Pattabhi Vemulapati from Hyderabad. He writes : “I was on the way to Hyderabad airport on the Outer Ring Road (ORR). At the last stage of ORR, the road dangerously forks into one road which goes to Ibrahimpatnam and the...

  2. Karachi to Hyderabad

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    / February 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    These are the works of Anjum Mohammadi from Karachi, Pakistan who has been teaching art at a school for many years now. She uses all mediums of paints, charcoal and acrylics. She loves sculpture and won’t mind mixing that too in the paintings to create a 3D effect. Her works...

  3. Don’t they ever learn?

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    / February 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A few years ago some dickheads masquerading in the guise of bureaucrats and politicians decided to rename the roads of Banjara Hills. Upset with the seemingly haphazard numbering roads out of sequence, they decided to resort to logic and tried to rename the Road number. So Road No. 3 was...
    Posted in Hyderabad
    Tagged banjara hills, bhimsen joshi, bismillah khan, ghmc, kaifi azmi, municipal, numbering

  4. Meter podu in the south

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Wonder if the notorious autorickshaw drivers will fleece you less but atleast you will be aware they are fleecing you. Meterpodu is a crowdsourcing tool to get approximate auto-rickshaw fares for cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and Mysore. Log on to the site, punch in your details of start and...

  5. Hyderabad airport is world’s 3rd best

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    / February 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A feather in Hyderabad airport’s cap. The Rajiv Gandhi International airport has been judged the third best airport in the world in service quality in the 5 t0 15 million passengers per annum category. The airport that is run by the GMR group has been ranked by Airports Council International (ACI) ahead...

  6. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Road, Hyderabad

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Yes, that will now be the name of the road from Sultan Bazar to Ramkote circle in Hyderabad. Similarly, Ramkote-Eden Garden Road has been named after Ustad Bismillah Khan and Road no. 3, Banjara Hills after poet Kaifi Azmi. The name change happened after the standing committee of the Greater...
    Posted in Hyderabad
    Tagged bhimsen joshi, bismillah khan, ghmc, kaifi azmi, municipal, roads

  7. The footpath opposite Cinemax

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    / February 4, 2012 / 4 Comments
    “Would you like to see Ra.one tonight?” texted my dad one evening last October. Of course I’d like to see Ra.one, I’d love to see Ra.one. There was a special screening at Prasad Labs in Hyderabad that night. So, my  sister and I, contrary to how we generally dress up for...

  8. World’s fastest fingers

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    / February 3, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The fastest typist in the world is now from Hyderabad. Mohammed Khursheed Hussain, who is a 3rd year B.Tech student in the city, typed 50 characters (the 26 alphabets and the space in between) in a record time of 3.43 seconds, breaking the existing record of 3.52 seconds, also set...

  9. Hyderabad’s date with 26 artists

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    / February 2, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Twenty six artists come together to present a collection of contemporary paintings in Hyderabad from February 11-18 at the Muse Art Gallery at Hotel Marriot. Presenting a preview on `The South Reports’.

  10. Hyderabad has the most affordable housing

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    / February 1, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Often when a few householders, usually men, meet the discussion veers to the price of housing in their city. Whether the prices will go up or down ? What impact any external event, be it a Global financial crisis or the local Telangana agitation will have on the housing market ? Mortgage...