Sunday, December 20, 2009

I am from Hyderabad

This is one of the nice articles that I read and I loved it. This article speaks my mind and heart. The article is written by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy is a civil servant whose family has lived in Hyderabad for over four generations. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling Jeh: A Life of JRD Tata, and Sugar in Milk: Lives of Eminent Parsis. Here is the link of that article.

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?263401

If not for the article, read these lines that made me fall for it:

“I am from Hyderabad.” That, for me, is the bottom line. Ultimately, it is not important whether Hyderabad goes to Telangana or to Andhra, or becomes a Union Territory or a joint capital. No doubt chauvinism, economics and politics will all play a role when that decision is taken. There are fears that ‘Brand Hyderabad’ will suffer. But let’s not sweat the small stuff. Our concern should be about the disappearance of the inclusive personality that Hyderabad fostered, reveling as it did in its multi-religious and multilingual diversity—a composite character which Nehru not only lauded but also hoped that the rest of India would emulate. To anything which seeks to destroy this syncretism we must say a polite ‘Nakko’, because ‘Hum logaan ko aisich rehna."

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