abba cha...

!!!3 finger space!!! my first effort is to reflect the best known "abba-cha"attitude of our own hyder-abad (it has attained cult status and even has its own community on the "orgasmic" orkut with a whopping 200 members)!! It struck me when i read an article by Ms. Beauty give-give( read as Shobaa de de..) in she went which ga ga over what a beautiful and carefree nation Italy was..she said "There is beauty everywhere"( I know that is code for I'm ogling at the good-looking male posteriors)..But madam spare a moment for India's answer to Utopia-the "lite lele" city,Hyderabad.

The best microcosm of our nawabi lineage is our very own traffic junction. You have the classic police man with the custom-made tea cup holder (read as his round belly),the motorbike-revving college-goer awfully late for college (he's already a good 15 mins late to his cafe rendezvous),the middle aged office employee with the ubiquitous i.d tags around his neck reminding us of Mans' best friend and of course the good looking women-folk( the proof of their good-looks being the kinda efforts they take to cover up every inch of their "fairer-sex")-some of them resemble the terrorists contemplating a bombing of some sort.Helmets/mobile phone holders hung judiciously to protect the stepny and we are pioneers in "Zen and the art of cut-maarna". And not to forget our fast lane denizens-the heavy duty 000 cc bicycle & cycle rickshaws who made made it their own"dad's lane"plus the vendors who occupy a cool 25% of each side of every road selling everything from nuts to balls and evrything in between!!


We hyderabadis' are still perplexed by the presence of an additional colour on our traffic light,the orange or is it the yellow??we know only the red-when we race to get to the other side and the green- when we apply brakes to prevent dashing the other guys vehicle!!and btw jumping the signal refers to doing the reverse..And our traffic has acquired folk-lore status;even on his latest trip to apun-ka-hyd,my israel-returned uncle declares that if you can drive in hyderabad, you can drive anywhere in the world!!So much for the Hamas,the P.L.O and the gaza strip-tease!!!

When we bang into each other which is just about all the time we share what i call the "mother-sister" vocabulary lest the whole thing is dealt in a very civilised blow for blow format. The women-folk esp the ones wielding the wheel of terror are out to prove a point to the men that they want a 50% reservation in causing minor fatal accidents too. Our evidently pregnant traffic mamu turns a homer's eye(coz nelson was blind only in one eye) to all the female delinquents. From experience i quote that incase you dont have any documents on you and nor does your vehicle then jus let your girl-buddy drive especially in mamu-infested areas (follow this maxim even if she doesnt know how to drive). But whatever it may be our traffic mamu books atleast 4 or 5 innocent travellers for his daily dosa or biriyani or even for his tea-water(i.e chai-paani)

The poster girl of Hyderabad ideally should be the "Lifebuoy Anti-septic Soap" girl who declared long back that come what may,"I DONT CARE". Thats our slogan,"we jus dont care"!!! With special reference to our presence by the one and only name that represents change(coz u really dnt know if u r gonna see a he or a she the next time you see him or is it her??) "Micheal jackson" in the song "All I wanna say is that "they"dont really care bout us"

Guess what we think about morality or civic sense....???.
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Abba chaa....