Telangana & Hyderabad - Some Predictions

indophile wrote:
Some crystal ball, some wishful thinking, some commonsense. Unless people with some vision and administrative competence are allowed to take charge in Telangana, the following things may very well happen.

1. With demand for protection money and reservations for locals, all private industry (IT industry, pharma, movie industry, etc.) will move to Vizag.
2. Central government sponsored industry (DRDO, Electronics, etc.) will stick around in Hyderabad.
3. High end tutorials (IIT, IAS, IPS, CA, etc.) will maintain some presence in Hyderabad and Warangal, but all their expansion will be in SA and Bangalore (already, they are expanding significantly in Bangalore) since that's where they can make money, and where competition is respected.
4. All commercial activity in Hyderabad will be dominated by Gujaratis and other Bombay-based businesses.
5. There may be some naam-ke-vaaste development in non-Hyderabad Telangana, but nothing close to what Telangana leaders promised.
6. The 10-year timeframe on Hyderabad may be cut short because of unwillingness on both sides to run it to the full term, irrespective of how long it could take for SA folks and businesses to wind up in Hyderabad and transition to Vizag and/or other places.
7. Telugu language and literature will be dead in Telangana in 2 or 3 decades.
8. There will be big dispute on the sharing of Godavari and Krishna waters. In the meantime, Maharashtra will build more dams across Godavari (upstream of Babli) and render any Telangana-SA water dispute moot.
9. There will be many political killings terrorism in Telangana/Hyderabad because of greed combined with a  limited pie, red problem, and the muslim problem.

Add your own predictions (good or bad).

pravalika nanda wrote:
** I'd hate to see any outsiders in Vizag.

pravalika nanda wrote:

indophile wrote:
Some crystal ball, some wishful thinking, some commonsense. Unless people with some vision and administrative competence are allowed to take charge in Telangana, the following things may very well happen.

1. With demand for protection money and reservations for locals, all private industry (IT industry, pharma, movie industry, etc.) will move to Vizag.
2. Central government sponsored industry (DRDO, Electronics, etc.) will stick around in Hyderabad.
3. High end tutorials (IIT, IAS, IPS, CA, etc.) will maintain some presence in Hyderabad and Warangal, but all their expansion will be in SA and Bangalore (already, they are expanding significantly in Bangalore) since that's where they can make money, and where competition is respected.
4. All commercial activity in Hyderabad will be dominated by Gujaratis and other Bombay-based businesses.
5. There may be some naam-ke-vaaste development in non-Hyderabad Telangana, but nothing close to what Telangana leaders promised.
6. The 10-year timeframe on Hyderabad may be cut short because of unwillingness on both sides to run it to the full term, irrespective of how long it could take for SA folks and businesses to wind up in Hyderabad and transition to Vizag and/or other places.
7. Telugu language and literature will be dead in Telangana in 2 or 3 decades.
8. There will be big dispute on the sharing of Godavari and Krishna waters. In the meantime, Maharashtra will build more dams across Godavari (upstream of Babli) and render any Telangana-SA water dispute moot.
9. There will be many political killings terrorism in Telangana/Hyderabad because of greed combined with a  limited pie, red problem, and the muslim problem.

Add your own predictions (good or bad).

** Everyone I know who got an education got educated in Andhra university, I think it's located in a quiet town called "Waltair." I have family there living in the AU quarters. I visited when I was nine and later when I was thirty. I would wake up at 6am and all I had to do was cross the highway to find myself walking in the white sand, the sea was very blue and here and there you'd see some elegant navy ship and the shore was very clean. The air was salty and you could taste it if you stuck your tongue out. There were some tan makeshift tents on the shore where the fisher people lived but their homes were spare and very neat. They weren't loud or rude or nosy, in fact I'd say that the men and women are polite and hard-working. If you keep walking along the beach for 90 mins you come to the taj and there are a lot of people near that area. But by then it's 730 am and they have a great breakfast and a section called the anti-oxidant table (I don't remember if they called it that or maybe I made it up). At this table they have papaya and apple juice and sprouts of every kind and guess what, they have berries too. Their idlis are awesome esp because the coconut chutney is so fresh and light. Some nights I'd spend at the Taj - it's an awfully quaint hotel - and sleep to the sound of the waves, and when I visit home, my cousins and I set up a mosquito net tent on the daba to sleep outdoors.

** I'd hate to see any outsiders in Vizag.

truthbetold wrote:Ghanta, dronamraju are missing from your list.

truthbetold wrote:I know several ghanti families. Usn't ghanta srinivas rao minister from that area?

indophile wrote:
Some crystal ball, some wishful thinking, some commonsense. Unless people with some vision and administrative competence are allowed to take charge in Telangana, the following things may very well happen.

1. With demand for protection money and reservations for locals, all private industry (IT industry, pharma, movie industry, etc.) will move to Vizag.
2. Central government sponsored industry (DRDO, Electronics, etc.) will stick around in Hyderabad.
3. High end tutorials (IIT, IAS, IPS, CA, etc.) will maintain some presence in Hyderabad and Warangal, but all their expansion will be in SA and Bangalore (already, they are expanding significantly in Bangalore) since that's where they can make money, and where competition is respected.
4. All commercial activity in Hyderabad will be dominated by Gujaratis and other Bombay-based businesses.
5. There may be some naam-ke-vaaste development in non-Hyderabad Telangana, but nothing close to what Telangana leaders promised.
6. The 10-year timeframe on Hyderabad may be cut short because of unwillingness on both sides to run it to the full term, irrespective of how long it could take for SA folks and businesses to wind up in Hyderabad and transition to Vizag and/or other places.
7. Telugu language and literature will be dead in Telangana in 2 or 3 decades.
8. There will be big dispute on the sharing of Godavari and Krishna waters. In the meantime, Maharashtra will build more dams across Godavari (upstream of Babli) and render any Telangana-SA water dispute moot.
9. There will be many political killings terrorism in Telangana/Hyderabad because of greed combined with a  limited pie, red problem, and the muslim problem.

Add your own predictions (good or bad).

pravalika nanda wrote:
** Everyone I know who got an education got educated in Andhra university, I think it's located in a quiet town called "Waltair." I have family there living in the AU quarters. I visited when I was nine and later when I was thirty. I would wake up at 6am and all I had to do was cross the highway to find myself walking in the white sand, the sea was very blue and here and there you'd see some elegant navy ship and the shore was very clean.

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** I'd hate to see any outsiders in Vizag.

undefined wrote: Brings back memories......

MhaaraanipEta had an agraharam look when I was a student. I knew several families - some family names: Tenneti, Garimella, Bulusu, Pullela, Sonthi, Jayanti, Rachakonda..... Hmm.... Those days, there were no hotels and apartments in that area. We used to walk to the beach. Century Club, Collector's Office, Ramakrishna matam, etc..... On Saturdays, early in the morning, I used to go to the Venkateswara temple on the hill near Dolphin's nose. Hmm.... Those were the days.....

The communists used to have a book-store called Visalandhra. Opposite to it, there used to be a photo studio. On the road to AMC, there used to be a famous restaurant (forgot the name).......

Hashie wrote:

undefined wrote: Brings back memories......

MhaaraanipEta had an agraharam look when I was a student. I knew several families - some family names: Tenneti, Garimella, Bulusu, Pullela, Sonthi, Jayanti, Rachakonda..... Hmm.... Those days, there were no hotels and apartments in that area. We used to walk to the beach. Century Club, Collector's Office, Ramakrishna matam, etc..... On Saturdays, early in the morning, I used to go to the Venkateswara temple on the hill near Dolphin's nose. Hmm.... Those were the days.....

The communists used to have a book-store called Visalandhra. Opposite to it, there used to be a photo studio. On the road to AMC, there used to be a famous restaurant (forgot the name).......

 Wow..my grandmother used to tell us they lived next to sri sri's house. well...that was before sri sri actually became big. That was also near Beach road...matches ur description... any memory about surnames like Nerella, Mangipudi etc? :-)

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:

Hashie wrote:

undefined wrote: Brings back memories......

MhaaraanipEta had an agraharam look when I was a student. I knew several families - some family names: Tenneti, Garimella, Bulusu, Pullela, Sonthi, Jayanti, Rachakonda..... Hmm.... Those days, there were no hotels and apartments in that area. We used to walk to the beach. Century Club, Collector's Office, Ramakrishna matam, etc..... On Saturdays, early in the morning, I used to go to the Venkateswara temple on the hill near Dolphin's nose. Hmm.... Those were the days.....

The communists used to have a book-store called Visalandhra. Opposite to it, there used to be a photo studio. On the road to AMC, there used to be a famous restaurant (forgot the name).......

 Wow..my grandmother used to tell us they lived next to sri sri's house. well...that was before sri sri actually became big. That was also near Beach road...matches ur description... any memory about surnames like Nerella, Mangipudi etc? :-)

Naaku theledandi. Sreerangam vaallu unnaarani vinnaanukaanee, Sri Sri gaari illekkado thelEdu.

"pagalanaka rEyanaka paduthunna sramanantaa parulakoraku dhaarapOyu mooga jeevulu" (Velugu Needalu - describes his true outlook).