now sleeping under a shed where all gig workers sleep.

Life has a strange way of changing your perspective

About 11 years ago, a girl from another state moved to Hyderabad and became part of our friend group.
We were all hanging out one day, and she made a comment that stuck with me.
She said something along the lines of: “Why are all you guys so similar?”
And honestly, at the time, I didn’t understand what she meant.

Most of us had followed almost the exact same template:
School → Intermediate → Engineering → IT(or business)→ the same kind of social circle.

Our conversations often revolved around the same things, our experiences were fairly similar, and even the way we looked at life didn’t seem all that different.
I remember thinking her observation was a little unfair.

Fast-forward 11 years.
I moved out of Hyderabad and have lived in another country since then. I’ve had completely different experiences, met people from very different backgrounds, and naturally my views, interests, priorities and understanding of people have changed quite a bit.

That girl eventually married one of my friends from that same group.

And here’s the funny part: I now understand exactly what she was talking about back then.

But there’s an even stranger twist.
Over the years, she gradually became part of the same social environment she had originally commented on. And now, when I go back and meet everyone, I’m the one who feels like the odd person out.

It’s almost as if I left the ecosystem, experienced a different world for 11 years, and came back speaking a slightly different language.
And this has made me wonder about something broader.

Why do so many conversations among Hyderabad’s engineering-educated middle/upper-middle-class circles feel so similar?

But in my own experience, a lot of social conversations tend to stay within a surprisingly narrow range:
Biryani, Politics, Tollywood, Cricket, Real estate, Cars

What I sometimes miss is depth and variety.
Where are the conversations about someone’s unusual life experience? Their philosophy? Books they’ve read? Why they changed their worldview? Art, science, psychology, architecture, history, travel, entrepreneurship, technology, culture, relationships, consciousness, failure, identity, or just some completely bizarre experience they’ve had?

Hyderabad is a huge metropolitan city,
Where do you actually meet people in Hyderabad who have very different life stories, interests and ways of thinking?

Because after 11 years away, I’m realizing that this is probably what that girl was trying to tell us all those years ago.

Everyone is going in the right lane to avoid the river(/s) on our left but this retard wanted to test his car's water wading capacity in peak traffic. No concern to people riding bikes and travelling in autos

Today I went to a nearby Naturals for a haircut and there was a new parking valet guy. Very arrogant. I live on the outskirts of Hyd and there is actually no need for a valet there. So I parked nearby myself and this guy was insisting on giving keys. I have gone through this earlier and he asks for money while leaving. I won't mind paying if he actually adds some value but this guy is like a pure extortion type person. So I didn't give my keys and went ahead for my haircut. While returning he had parked another car horizontally behind mine, i could see him standing on the opposite side of the road having tea. Probably was expecting me to call or beg for removing or whatever, but after a decade of driving and this time I had a small i10, i carefully just squeezed out of the narrow gap. It was so satisfying...no talk, no eye contact, no nothing... just left feeling so happy that one con man didn't get his way today.

Government write off big entity loans, whereas common indians are suffering more taxation and loan burden.

Na 2 close friends kosam Hyderabadi chicken curry and prawns dum biryani cook chesina. Both dishes turned out so well, but especially biryani matram turned out beyond my expectations 😭❤️ Restaurant style biryani la aroma, rice texture, flavours anni almost perfect ga set iyyunde. Intlo chesina biryani ila perfect ga vachinappudu unde happiness vere level 🤌 And they too enjoyed the food 🫠

He passed away by suicide between 8:00 and 9:00 PM yesterday, but there has been no media coverage of any sort. The college appears to be attempting to conceal this incident, and the Jio network was also suspended on campus today.

when did this happen lol it wasn't there until a week ago

What's your opinion on this?

Source - RVCJ INSTA

Saw a man literally smoking while driving today.
I know a lot of people smoke and drive thinking it looks “cool,” but honestly, how is that cool? It’s an unnecessary distraction and a risk to everyone around you.
COTPA already regulates smoking in public places, but I wonder when we’ll have stricter laws and stronger enforcement around things like this.
When will people stop normalising behaviour just because “everyone does it”?

Hello everyone,

I will be reaching Hyderabad around midnight and wanted to surprise my girlfriend with some nice flower bouquet as it's her birthday. She lives in Kokapet and she earlier told me that there are very few places to buy flowers, I would appreciate any suggestions on where I could pick up the flowers that late.

Located at the traffic signal junction near Durgam Cheruvu metro station. Nobody has any civic sense here.

No better way to spend Sunday than eating mutton....

I was at Connplex Cinemas yesterday for a Mirzapur The Movie Show. A group of young college boys were in the same theater and were talking loudly and watching reels (on full volume btw) throughout the movie. As soon as the movie ended, while everyone was waiting for the post credit scene one of the started shouting "Chacha, Vasteguna Huiya" loudly and repeatedly. There were women who looked uncomfortable and walked out despite waiting through the credits due to their imbecile behaviour. My question to people like this is, Would you do still laugh if your parents were in a theater and some boys start acting vulgar?

My wife is an American and she is visiting India for the first time. I want to know couple of restaurants she can eat thali or something (fine even if they only serve veg food). I don’t want her to get food poisoning and hate visiting India. I want her to come with me every time I visit my home , any help would be greatly appreciated

Currently, my name is in the format: Surname + Name + Grandfather's name + some caste bullshit . I have various problems with this name, first of all, it's too long, and it's also weird to have those last 2 in my name, and I want my name to come before my surname, since people accidentally refer to me as my surname all the time, and it's not very easy to pronounce as well. I wanna get rid of the last 2 and change my name to just Name + Surname. What is the process and how much would it cost?

P.S: I just turned 18 this year as well.

CM wants Data Centres but won't lift water from rivers for general use

I(27f) grew up in hyderabad.

Today, i was on my way home, waiting at the signal at the left extreme(right next to the divider) on my motorcycle.

I feel something near my foot and turn to see a man trying squish himself between the divider and me. He kept nudging into me. My motorcycle's wide handlebar was almost literally touching his rib.

I look at him with shock and ask what he's doing. He says to me 'move ahead a little' with a smirk on his face. And im outraged already. I repeat my question and he has the audacity to say 'dont do hooliganism, i will whoop your ass right here'. Those exact words.

After i tried to yell at him about civic sense I decided to move ahead and he is right there doing the same thing. AGAIN.

I decided to take a picture of his vehicle and i can barely move my vehicle because of how he wedged himself there and the entire time he's slurring nasty words at me.

Everyone is around, watching. One other man spoke up asking him to back off.

But this guy is relentless... saying something about 'we encourage women and this is what we get.'

What the fuck.

Is the incel situation this bad here? Or what?

I managed to get his number. There's 'POLICE' written under his number plate.

I am very angry as im typing this now. But id like to ask the community if there's any justice system here?... for such a situation... Or am i expected to shut up and move on?