Hyderabad Blues!

I desperately need a getaway. Would love to pack my bags right now and head off somewhere all on my own! That would be funnn! Why alone? Coz my idea of a trip doesn’t really match with anybody’s around me. Just the other day, I was planning a trip with a friend and realized that there are very few places I would really want to go to.

- Villages bore me. The silence and the laidback life is bearable for a day or two, at most. By the third day, I’m at my wits’ end.

- Goa is done to death. Despite being a water sign, I’m so sick of beaches now, I might just throw up if I go to another one!

- Hill stations are pretty annoying. Go to any one of them, you’ll see the same stuff. And thanks to global warming, even they don’t have lower temperatures anymore. Forget snow.

Hyderabad somehow is a very tempting option. I’ve been there before…but it was a family trip. So one day was spent in visiting Ramoji Film City, another one for parks, lakes, another one for snow park, and so on! The entire trip was pretty much a waste. Not to forget all the weird stuff people bring on their way back. I remember PuLa Deshpande’s ‘Mee Ani Majhe Shatrupaksha’ where he says that there is nothing in this world that you cannot get in Pune or Mumbai. How true!

What fascinates me about a city is its history, the cuisine, the markets (not for shopping, just love the noise!), the museums. I would give anything to stand atop a building and watch the Charminar in the moonlight, all decked up in yellow lights, surrounded by traffic! Or eat lip-smacking Biryani at the Taj; or walk aimlessly and endlessly through Laad Bazaar – a street bursting with bangles! Hyberabad has some of the best buildings I’ve ever seen.  Such beautiful architecture; whether its Golkonda Fort, Makkah Masjid, Qutub Shahi Tombs, or the Falaknuma Palace…grandeur is perhaps too less a word to describe it.

Its amazing how a place can draw you in itself, making you feel like you belong there. Hyderabad did that to me and I'm eager to go back and indulge in its opulence.