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Hyderabad’s Old City is still waiting for its metro line. Andhra Pradesh marching ahead

A year after L&T's exit, Telangana is still sorting out financing for its Old City metro line while AP's twin-city project moves swiftly through the...

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Hyderabad is letting Dakhni down. A Bengaluru rapper is doing more for it

Bengaluru has become a serious space for Dakhni representation in the last five years. In Hyderabad, there is a lot of fun content being created, but...

29.07.2026 10

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Osmania University’s absence from NEET paper leak protests betrays its own culture of dissent

Despite being one of the most politically charged forces in the country, Osmania University and its students are nowhere to be seen in the current...

23.07.2026 20

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South India isn’t as free as we think. Andhra Pradesh arrested a YouTuber five times in a week

From Prashna Raavan to journalist KV Reddy to comedians Anudeep Katikala and Mohammed Rafeeq, Andhra Pradesh's crackdown on dissent is starting to...

09.07.2026 30

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Urdu is not a ‘Muslim language’, BJP alienised it, Congress is silent

The attack on a Muslim school principal for teaching Urdu ‘to non-Muslims’ should serve as a wake-up call for those who assumed they were...

02.07.2026 30

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Hyderabad is conservative at its core. It isn’t quite the modern global city others view it as

As great as Hyderabad is to live in, it lags behind cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru or even Delhi in terms of how conservative it is, especially when it...

18.06.2026 30

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Hindutva groups targeting Muslims will never understand what makes biryani Indian

We knew biryani would become another casualty of Hindutva groups who love associating it with Muslims. Given Hyderabad’s obsession with biryani,...

10.06.2026 30

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Hyderabad hasn’t given up on American Dream. It’s just changed the destination to Germany

Hyderabad will continue to grow as an IT hub. But the larger aspiration of moving abroad has been driven by the belief that life is inherently better...

03.06.2026 40

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Hyderabad doesn’t need flyovers at the cost of trees. We don’t want to become like Delhi

The Supreme Court has stayed tree felling for H-CITI flyovers near KBR Park. We need more infrastructure, but we also need to keep Hyderabad a...

21.05.2026 40

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Hyderabad only knows Golconda. Telangana’s Hindu temples are either ignored—or demolished

The destruction of the 800-year-old Kakatiya-era temple in Warangal comes when Telangana and Hyderabad have both faced sustained threats of erasure of...

13.05.2026 50

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Why Hyderabadis need a history lesson beyond the Mughal court

From the Bahmani to the Qutb Shahis, Hyderabad’s local identity is far more complex than the standard Mughal-centric narrative suggests.

29.04.2026 50

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Tollywood’s toxic fandom now has state support. Pawan Kalyan joke arrests are abuse of power

Last week, I received a frantic text from a friend who is a stand-up comedian. It was about his colleague Anudeep Katikala, who was in Prayagraj at...

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Hyderabad can’t build a nightlife economy on 1 am deadlines

Cities across the world have markets that are allowed to remain open all night. Hyderabad definitely needs this.

15.04.2026 50

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A giant Gandhi statue near Musi river isn’t what Hyderabad needs now

What is the need to waste about Rs 5,800 crore on a statue? Maybe consider opening the gates of the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar from time to time...

01.04.2026 50

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Hyderabadis deserve better than what Salar Jung Museum’s 75th anniversary offers

The proposed museum’s conference is not featuring some of the best historians in country. Hyderabad, a city with rich history, is never as...

18.03.2026 50

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The Nizam heirs’ endless property disputes are costing Hyderabad its heritage

A court has narrowed the legal fight over the estates of the last Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, to his descendants. But such long-running feuds often take a...

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Ramzan food in Hyderabad is no longer an Old City affair

In Hyderabad’s Old City, complacency seems to have set in. And it’s far too crowded. Toli Chowki has emerged as a newer, more sensible option.

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Hyderabad’s Nizams are a pale shadow of their past. Unlike Scindia & Karan Singh

Had the Nizams been part of the state’s politics, I doubt Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM would have emerged as a Muslim-led party.

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Telangana govt must look to Delhi for lessons in managing a metro

The Telangana government, which has still not even fully absorbed the TGSRTC, is now going to take over the Hyderabad metro rail. Expectations are not...

21.01.2026 60

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Hyderabadi affair with Irani chai is old. Black tea is the new lover

Irani chai is the biryani of beverages for Hyderabad. A cultural reset is underway.

07.01.2026 60

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Can Rs 1,000 cr save Osmania University? It fought for Telangana, was abandoned in return

If anyone is responsible for the deterioration of Osmania University, it is the state. While we could earlier blame the erstwhile Andhra rulers, that...

18.12.2025 50

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Hyderabad’s supper clubs are for the rich and young. They don’t want to meet others in bars

There’s a pattern in Hyderabad’s F&B scene: new ventures run very well for the first three to six months. The real test for these supper clubs...

03.12.2025 40

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Why Hyderabad restaurants don’t make it to the top. Obsessed with comfort food, no PR

Most of the fancy or high-end restaurants opening up in Hyderabad these days are pretty much stuck on the same blueprint—big space, and inauthentic...

08.10.2025 50

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Hyderabad’s broken roads make Revanth Reddy’s ‘Future City’ goal hard to believe

How can the Telangana government plan to build a world-class ‘Bharat Future City’ out of Hyderabad when it can’t even provide basic infrastructure?

01.10.2025 40

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BJP’s ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ distorts 1948. It wasn’t a Hindu uprising against a Muslim

The last Nizam’s legacy is also being torn apart by the BJP, which has turned him into a devil because of the Razakar violence. It’s a selective...

10.09.2025 40

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Hyderabad’s Urdu media matters. You can’t shut them out of Telangana assembly debate

Urdu is the language of about 12 per cent Muslim population of Hyderabad. By selectively restricting access to the regional press, the Congress...

03.09.2025 50

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Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet...

27.08.2025 30

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Afzalgunj to Begum Bazar—Hyderabad’s markets don’t look ‘nawabi’. Marwaris, Gujjus built them

Some of Hyderabad’s oldest jewellery and perfume stores—many dating back to the Nizam era—are run by Marwari, Gujrati, and Jain families.

20.08.2025 40

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Is Hyderabad progressive? Muslim men moral policing Muslim women is routine

Muslim women already face issues at home due to patriarchy and misogyny — much like women in any conservative household. Moral policing only makes...

06.08.2025 30

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Telangana Congress can’t ignore food poisoning in schools. Over 100 affected in July

The matter is even more alarming because all of the affected students are from government schools for marginalised communities.

04.08.2025 40

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Hyderabad is no longer the better Bengaluru. Our roads are flooding and full of traffic

I wonder how the current government thinks it can talk about building ‘Future City’ in Hyderabad when even the present city itself is barely...

23.07.2025 30

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Stop telling South Indians to learn Hindi. In Hyderabad, languages coexist without imposition

I was surprised when Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan advocated for Hindi—at a time when states like Tamil...

16.07.2025 40

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11 years after state formation, where’s Telangana’s history? Govt must fix information gap

Neither Telangana’s textbooks nor the Razakar movie address the feudal system that enabled bonded labour under the Nizam’s Jagirdars.

02.07.2025 40

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Congress in Telangana gave award to Razkar—a propaganda film that demonises Muslims

“They’ve been blaming our party—blaming Nehru—for the delay in Hyderabad’s annexation. By giving Razakar an award, what message are we...

18.06.2025 40

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Telangana is still fighting for its water 10 years after breaking away from Andhra Pradesh

The Centre's Krishna River Management Board has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from repeatedly taking more than its allocated share of Krishna river...

11.06.2025 50

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Telangana govt must do more than blame BRS. Junking Kaleshwaram project shows incompetence

The entire idea of the Kaleshwaram project is to avoid water wastage. The geniuses in the government must understand that public projects like this...

04.06.2025 40

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Old Hyderabad is a fire trap. Buildings are too close to tragedies

An entire family of 17 died on 17 May – stuck inside the Gulzar Houz building in Hyderabad’s Charminar area.

28.05.2025 30

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Charminar to Golconda, Hyderabad is full of history. Yet not a single World Heritage Site

Hyderabad’s heritage has been routinely let down. All we’ve had are feeble attempts to make the city’s historic sites world class.

21.05.2025 40

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