Showing posts with label Bloggers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloggers. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Best Hyderabadi Blog 2008 -- Your Vote Please
Welcome to the world of the Hyderabadi diaspora. Wherever you are, we keep you posted on and connected to Hyderabad. Tell us what you think about us and some of the other blogs on Hyderabad. Your vote means everything to us and all the others. We'll know where we stand and more importantly, what you want.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Hyderabad on the web
Our city has quite a presence on the web. Be it news, culture, music, or politics, there are any number of sites looking at Hyderabad from one perspective or the other. Of course, this is true of other cities across the world, as well. Hyderabad on the web is more appealing than the city in reality. Let's hope reality will catch up at some point with the picture that the eye of a camera, or the click of a mouse would reveal.
29 video blogs on recent developments in the city are posted on ‘YouTube’
These kind of sites encourage youth to take a stand
Sites like ’YouTube’ connect Indians staying abroad
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Heera, moti......
For generations, Hyderabad has been known as the last stop for good pearls. A news channel reported yesterday that the 'City of 'Pearls' was fast turning into a centre for diamonds, as well. Hyderabadiz can pride themselves on the fact that there has been a 40% rise in the sale of diamonds, according to the report. Lightweight diamonds are light on the purse too and a cluster diamond is so exquisitely cut that it resembles a solitaire! Apparently, traditional Hyderabadi designs of jewelry are gaining increasing popularity among the younger folks. 'aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya'!
see Golconda Fort's neighbourhood
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
The changing metropolis
That Hyderabad is not what it used to be, is something not worth repeating any more. Besides, isn't that true of every other city? But the pace at which change has overtaken the twin cities, is something no one, least of all our MCH and other civic bodies, had anticipated. A large, consumerist middle-class, and huge swathes of migrants seem to have sprouted from nowhere--thanks mainly to the IT sector. In turn, a related chain of service businesses burgeoned and boomed, making the city look like a happening city--you simply need to visit one of the many high-end malls or local pubs to see what I mean. But, scratch the surface and what do you find? A city that is fast losing the green cover it had, obsolete sewerage systems, municipal authorities who couldn't care less about roads, streets, parks or parking spaces, and who would merrily look the other way if you happen to be a builder or a contractor, regardless of what you are doing. Be it traffic management, civic problems, mass transport--things that are of basic importance in everyday life, Hyderabad is far from a happening place. Somebody needs to remind our city's denizens and authorities that ' a few MNCs do not a metropolis make', no matter what the real estate prices may say.
One recalls the tree planting campaign taken up by the MCH (in Mr. Narendra Luther's time) during the Emergency years in the mid-seventies, when it was widely being perceived that the city's rising temperatures could be ascribed to the widespread of denudation of trees. Those saplings had grown into sturdy trees only to be chopped down mercilessly by the same civic body, over the last few years. Who says we evolve with time?
Monday, April 23, 2007
The faster we run, the more we stay in the same spot
Well, well....it does seem true--a blogroll of Hyderabadiz is something of a contradiction in terms--we're too laidback as a community to blog as much as we might want to. And if we choose to, our attempts are no different than our desperate efforts to negotiate Hyderabadi traffic--in tune with the chaos that adds up to life in this undefinably insane, 'paradise on earth'.
WYSIWYG: Hyderabadiz Flickr Badge is picked by 3 Bloggers
Thank you guys for going an extra mile
It's not always that blogs get noticed....we've been a shade lucky in that some of our 'virtual' friends have posted our flickr badge on their sites. We doff our hats in grateful acknowledgment to them.The truth is that life (virtual and real) at least elsewhere in the world, is whizzing by at breakneckspeed and things seem to be changing faster than the click of a mouse.
see also: 5 Reasons to Update Your Blog
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The blogroll keeps rocking....
Thanks to friends and associates, the blogroll here has been a big hit. So a Hyderabadi blog hook-up wasn't a bad idea after all--gauging from the success it has been.
Meanwhile, Hyderabad has been rocking on the cultural front too and cultural events here, are attracting impressive crowds.
The art historian and curator, Rasna Bhushan plans to turn a large old 1950s house into a venue for many such events including film screenings.
A group of culture activists have got together to form 'Rangtarang' , a non-profit cultural organization that intends to raise funds for NGOs by organizing events such as music concerts, plays, talks, art exhibitions, mushairas, kavi sammelans and dance recitals, among other things. The moving spirit behind Rangtarang is Mahavir Golechha, the Managing Director of Ivy League Academy--a well-known residential school here, and the others are Amit Bararia, Dr. Fakhre Alam Azmi, Nawab Obaidur Rehman and Chitra Daanger, among others.
Good for Hyderabad--keep rocking!
PS. Hyderabad ranks among the top Bloggers in India, Source: BLOGGING in India (A WATConsult Research)
Monday, March 19, 2007
Happy Ugadi--Bloggers' Carnival takes off
Folks,
Ugadi Greetings to all our bloggers....may the Ugadi 'pachhadi' symbolize loads of sweet happenings in your lives, and may the faint traces of bitterness be nothing more than gentle reminders of the infinite variety of life.
While thanking all our Hyderabadi mates who have come on board and allowed us to post the links to their blogs here, the hyderabadiz team wants all our other cybermates from Hyderabad to join the party.
This is a one-stop rendezvous for all hyderabadiz, no matter what they do in the blogosphere. The more the merrier.....
Let's welcome the Telugu New Year on this note of togetherness......
What other Hyderabadi Bloggers are saying on the eve of Ugadi:
See also"
Previous Webcasts / Slideshows in this blog:
Friday, March 16, 2007
Ugadi Greetings to all Hyderabadiz...welcome aboard
Bloggers of Hyderbad unite!
Here's the blogging carnival of carnivals. Ugadi marks the Telugu New Year and is therefore, a good time to make a beginning or turn a new leaf, if you will.To be honest, we are no Hyderabadi Vikings--in other words, Hyderabadi bloggers have been very active long before we got here. This is a time to doff our hat to all of them. All ye who have put Hyderabad on the web, blogged away and continue to do so--take a bow!
We, the all-inclusive team of Hyderabadiz, thank all our fellow-bloggers, who have generously provided a link to our site in their blogs.Thanks to their generosity, traffic to our blog has risen considerably--check the sitemeter our for results! If we could bring scores of like-minded friends on board, it's because of their enthusiasm for anything Hyderabadi, which translates into anything for Hyderabad.
Come Ugadi, and we'll launch Hyderabad's Carnival of Blogging Carnivals. The countdown has begun....ten, nine, eight........
Team of Hyderabadiz
[NB. The Panchangam is calculated using Ugadi or the Spring season as the first month; "Spring is just around the corner!!!" quote & image courtesy]
Friday, February 16, 2007
Great response.....
Calling out to all Hyderabadi bloggers - Update
folks,
While 'Shivaratri' is being celebrated all over Hyderabad and elsewhere, with the usual fervour and piety, a word of gratitude to all the virtual Hyderabadis who have responded to our idea.
Hold your breath until Ugadi--at the risk of repetition let me admit that our 'blogroll' idea has been quite a hit, as you can see from the response it has generated.
Hyderabadis a la Torontoians/Torontoers will have another virtual rendezvous soon.
Meanwhile, our team's preparing a lip-smacking variety of Hyderabadi cuisine for virtual sharing!
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Calling out to all Hyderabadi bloggers
All ye, who have tasted the waters of Gandipet and Manjira and who are now on alien shores and native land, who blog away regardless--on this city and everything about it--let us know more about yo
u, because our team has a brilliant idea. We intend to pool all the Hyderabadi bloggers and 'link' them on to a page--with thumbnail images of your blog, if the copyright / permissions are cleared by those who create the thumshots.
So, the sort of 'unity' we don't witness in real life, is possible in the virtual world! To know what the idea looks like--see what the Toronto folks are doing.
Get on to the Hyderabadi bandwagon (which is NOT rumbling along at the pace we hyderabadis are used to) ....We intend to launch this 'poolsite' by Ugadi....
aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya or as the children's program hosted on AIR by 'radio annayya' used to put it--'raaranDoye, raaranDoye'....
saty and the Hyderabadiz Team
u, because our team has a brilliant idea. We intend to pool all the Hyderabadi bloggers and 'link' them on to a page--with thumbnail images of your blog, if the copyright / permissions are cleared by those who create the thumshots.
So, the sort of 'unity' we don't witness in real life, is possible in the virtual world! To know what the idea looks like--see what the Toronto folks are doing.
Get on to the Hyderabadi bandwagon (which is NOT rumbling along at the pace we hyderabadis are used to) ....We intend to launch this 'poolsite' by Ugadi....
aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya or as the children's program hosted on AIR by 'radio annayya' used to put it--'raaranDoye, raaranDoye'....
saty and the Hyderabadiz Team
Friday, January 26, 2007
What Hyderabadi bloggers are doing on the Republic Day
A quote from the desk of a Hyderabadi journalist,
India: Misery and magic Haroon Siddiqui
HYDERABAD–The day India launched four satellites into space was also the day the construction crew arrived at the neighbour's house for adding a floor. ... Full article
kyonke mera dil hai phir bhi hindustani ...
Today is India's Republic Day. Let us see what Hyderabadi Bloggers are doing.
Sharing with you the JOY and PRIDE of being an INDIAN, Sadiya
PUNCHLINE:
And, you are a Hyderabadi if.........
1. Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22), while you actually live in the second house beside Zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.
2. You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it is a theatre workshop, food mela, consumer expo, designer jewellery show, science show or an automobile convention.
3. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchurea" or "American Chompsee".
4. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
5. You come across tailors sporting the board: Immidiot delivery in two days onli.
6. You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu, fluently.
7. You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
9. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
10. You have at least one Srinivas, Prasad, Raju or Venkatesh within six square feet. OR you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with these names.
11. You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.
12. Everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Party kab hai?'
13. Refer to any past as 'parsoon', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
14. You say 11 A.M. as subah subah.
15. You label your boss as: 'Dimagh Kharab'
16. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
17. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask: 'dene ka bolo'
18. You are reading this and secretly admitting that you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi.
And realize: Once a Hyderabadi, always a Hyderabadi
See also: Who is a Hyderabadi??? Posted by Prince on May 02, 2007 5:57:00
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sankranti and 'patangs'
I wonder who it was who brought 'patangs' or kites to Hyderabad. They fill the skies in quite a few sizes and all the colours you could think of.
From the time that we grew up--in the 60's--to these days, the price of patangs, manja ( the sharp thread used to cut other kites) and charaKhs has gone up in astronomical proportions. No wonder, there aren't as many kites as we used to see around December and early January, but Makara Sankranti seems to have made up for all that. There were zillions of kites everywhere and I couldn't resist getting into a few 'painches' (kite-fights) myself, when my job was actually to keep a close eye on my kids and their friends who were flying from our rooftop. The terminology (of 'patangbaazi') hasn't changed with the times, mercifully, and so everyone knows that a 'Dhiil' fight is one in which you keep releasing the string till you cut or get cut, just as 'khiinch' is tugging to the bitter finish (definitely requiring more skill). But not everyone these days seems to know what a 'jiiba' or a 'pattidar' is, as opposed to earlier times. But then times they sure are achanging......
NB. It is a harvest festival celebrated in most parts of India under different names .. Sankranti(A.P, Karnataka), Pongal(Tamil Nadu), Makar Sankranti (Maharastra and Gujarat) and Lohri (Punjab and Haryana). source: Me, Myself, I and stuff...., by Rajitha
PUNCHLINE:
Meethe gud main mil gaya til,
udi patang aur khil gaya dil,
Har pal sukh aur har din shanti aap ke liye Happy Makar Sankranti..
source: SMS Messages Collection#18- EJalgaon.com
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Multicultural Celebrations Around the New Year by Desiz
An interesting audio talk -- celebrations in India that is a land of unity in diversity.
PS. We dedicate this post to recognize the Gujarati's in Hyderabad.
Sal Mubarak~ Happy 2006!
Hungry for Holidays, anyone?
Listen to the whole show
Duration 11m 4s
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy 2007 - Have Fun with Hyderabad ka Paya Paya
"Paya Paya" in Aziz miyan's style by sayed Shahabuddin
Food, delicious too, all Hyderabadi....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Welcome to the city of the seven loaves, Hyderabad
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[PS. Background audio clip is by Sulaiman Khateeb--also sp. sulaiman khatib--Dekhani Urdu drama in verse] probably included in his book: kevre ke ban (Gulbarga, Sulaimān Khatīb Yādgār Talīmī, Saqāfatī va Imdādī Ṭrasṭ, 2002)
This is a virtual Hyderabadi portal--first have a galnce of this virtual city
And now, you are entering the pearl city: Today's weather Check Stock market get set to eat target=_blankhyderabadi biryani and don't miss Google Map
Quotable quotes:
[based on a legend that Asif Jah I met a saint on his way to become the ruler of Hyderabad. The saint gave seven loaves of bread, which symbolized that his dynasty would end with the seventh ruler].
mera dil hamesha rahega Hyderabadi
[Courtesy @ Harini Sanjeev ]
[courtesy: Rajeev ]
[courtesy: Hyderabad Pages by WingFoot]
8 Km - Distance from Charminar to Golconda Fort
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