Thursday, December 22, 2005

drive through hyderabad

Citizens of the world,welcome to the roads of hyderabad. We pride ourselves with holding live training sessions for IAF pilots being trained for quick reflexes and for shuttle pilots heading for the oort cloud. It is ofcourse no secret, that the pilots in the Bruce willis brain buster, Armageddon were trained here.

The roads of hyderabad have been remodelled to mirror the game road rash. there is a conspiracy theory that several aliens from texas are conducting a secret experment on the citizens of hyderabad. everyone here has been afflicted by a strange mind disease that makes them all into characters in a computer game. Several images have been released, of aliens who look like George bush,sitting at a Y-BOX console and playing with us.

It is a plausible explanation considering the kind of driving that one gets to see here.Where else,apart from hollywood and F1 would you see such fantastic stunt driving. It puts vanishing point and speed to shame.The various characters in this game are as follows:

Autowallahs: the pride of hyderabad. These meter tampering,rational evading autowallahs have in the past driven kerosene guzzling petrol driven autos. they indicate a left signal with their left hand and a right signal with their right leg and then buzz stright off!

Cops: Pot-bellied creatures(come in khaki,white and white-khaki flavours) seen lurking next to traffic junctions.Dont make any effort to stop a violator who would provide them with a fine lower than a large 3 digit number. break rules which arent broken by others.

Two-wheelers: ride vehicles supposed to carry two people only.May carry 1,2,3,4...6 or an entire batallion. exhibit brownian motion. Motion can be modelled only by non-linear methods.

Two wheeler riders who graduated to cars: there are some, who have become more prosperous. they now 'ride' 4 wheelers. they are still mentally in their two wheelers.Hence, they drive around- executing overtaking manouveres that would put the best rider to shame.

Cycle wallahs: needless to say, we have our own version of the tour de france.

MCH: Only special editions carry it. our very own municipal corp specilaises in leaving manholes open. Down the hole ye go, ye bilge rats.



If you manage to survive all this, you are none other than a hyderabadi driver.You can proudly carry the title of reckless roadster.for you my freind drive just as skillfully.You overtake from the left, you fly past red lights and execute U-turns on fly overs.You my freind are a true hyderabadi roadster.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Saw and read your blog article on the fabled autowallahs of Hyderabad who are truly magicians of the road as u said.

I need your help in this,.

I am BILIGIRI RANGA, from Hyderabad, India and am writing an article for a Hyderabad based PRISM , a 10 year old mag, on the menace of AUTO drivers on the roads. My article deals with their rudeness, bad driving, and so on.

U can see my www.primetimeprism.com - Features link for earlier articles of mine)

I am keen to have your views for the same and hope u would respond with suggestions

PLS Contact me soon at

brnugget_6@yahoo.com