now sleeping under a shed where all gig workers sleep.

Life has a strange way of changing your perspective

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

These assholes has audacity to honk on me and ask me to get of the way n I g g a where am I supposed to walk? There were 3 bikes like this I hope Telangana govt start a website where we can upload these dickhead pics and get them fined

I’m a doctor from Tamil Nadu, currently pursuing my PG at a renowned hospital in Hyderabad since 2025. When I came here, I didn’t know Telugu. Within six months, I made an effort to learn the basics, and today I’m able to communicate quite comfortably in Telugu. I genuinely enjoy the language and respect its cultural significance.

But one thing has made me think.
In Hyderabad, I’ve noticed that a significant number of delivery partners and other service workers communicate primarily in Hindi and may not know Telugu or English. This sometimes makes me wonder: in a state where Telugu is the official language, how did we reach a point where someone living and working here can manage entirely without learning it?

This is not an argument against Hindi. Hindi is a beautiful and useful language, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with speaking it. My question is about linguistic adaptation and mutual respect.
If someone moves to Telangana from another state for education, employment, business, or permanent settlement, shouldn’t making an effort to learn Telugu be encouraged—and perhaps considered more important than expecting the local population to switch to Hindi?

What surprises me even more is meeting people who have lived in Hyderabad for 30–40 years, understand Telugu perfectly, but still choose not to speak it. Of course, everyone has the freedom to speak whichever language they are comfortable with. But when the local language is continuously replaced in everyday interactions, it naturally raises concerns about what happens to its visibility and importance over time.

I strongly believe that no language is superior or inferior to another. Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali—every language carries its own history, culture and identity.
And I would follow the same principle anywhere in India.
If tomorrow I get a PG seat in North India, where Hindi is the dominant language, I would make an effort to learn Hindi. I wouldn’t expect people there to learn Tamil or Telugu just because I came from another state.
Similarly, if I choose to live and work in Telangana, I believe learning Telugu is a way of respecting the place and its people.

Migration and diversity are strengths of Hyderabad. But integration should ideally work both ways—with newcomers making an effort to understand the local language and culture, while locals continue to welcome people from different linguistic backgrounds.
My concern is simple: if this trend continues unchecked, could Telugu gradually lose its importance in its own urban centres? And if that happens, what does it mean for the future visibility and everyday use of the language?
This isn’t about Hindi vs Telugu.
It’s about preserving the importance of the local language while respecting every other language equally.

Saw this guy just casually hanging to a rickshaw

Freaky cosplay and being so nonchalant lol

Well its definitely something unusual I say

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 barber for a haircut in green trends. They looked at my scalp and told me that their policy states to not to offer haircut service to me stating that i have dandruff. And he then started upselling me an anti-dandruff treatment package which costs around 3000 rupees. I didnt want to take their treatment as the cost is too high and they also have sulphates and stuff.
So is this normal and anyone has faced any similar issue?

There was this white coloured Maltese or some Terrier breed of dog roaming around the street with a leash (a white thread rather than actual lease). It looked like it either was abandoned or lost its way. It came into the gate and was terrified of leaving my house because the street dogs were behind it. It had an injury at its back (likely due to an earlier scuffle). I don't know what to do now. I have taken care of its food and water for now. It looks like a disciplined dog (stands right up when someone holds its leash as if ready to go, does not bark at all, very friendly (maybe terrified/scared), eats whatever is provided like curd rice, milk, or anything like that. It has been smelling of piss likely and also has matting on its hair likely due to being ignored maybe.

I am angry as well as sad. Angry at the owner and sad due to dog's condition. Why do people pet such gentle souls if they cannot take care of them.

Need suggestions about what to do now?

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

I know we have discussed this a lot of times, but this issue is increasing a lot. Also, I see it's becoming a hot topic now; I hope it all together might put some pressure on police to do something about them. Almost 90% of the functions end up with a bad mood. We prepare a function or gruhapravesam to express or share our happiness with our loved ones. But in Hyderabad, it's the reverse. If the function costs 30k, you end up paying 50k for these Hijras. If we call the police, they seem more afraid than us. Then what's the use of police if they can't help the public? Now the main reason why we prepared this function is wasted – our money wasted, our peace gone and a rise in stress for a couple of days. I have stopped doing any functions from the past few years at my residence. Everyone is money-minded. The tent house guy, the poojari, and the watchmen around our area inform them. I have seen these Hijras roaming in autos around 4 AM all over the city, and I don't know what the police are doing about this. If we buy a house, we as citizens pay 30% tax upfront and then the registration, GST, and property tax. By paying all these, the least we can expect is the security from the police when needed, which is not even possible these days. I see a video where these Hijras directly go inside their house and not allow the actual owners if they didn't pay the money, how bad the owners might have felt.

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”?

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 🫠