The ISB Experience :PART III

Well wait wait wait......
The story doesn't end here.....
During the evening of June 25th, we got a chance to have mone great masti.We got a free entry to Taj Krishna,The Taj hotel in Hyderabad.And what's more 25th was a Wednesday so that spells,a girl's night day....so at Ahala,the disc cum bar at the Taj,we all rocked for a while,had some good drinks(u can guess it,need I say more), and were back in the campus.

26th June was the day when all of us had to depart,though I had planned to be back on 27th,so I had a day extra. From 3 in the morning,people were streaming out of ISB slowly and gradually....

So what did I do alone, I went to the library,read a couple of guides on finance and stuff, and in the afternoon,I ventured out in the unknown of Hyderabad...something which I love to do..the benefit of venturing out alone are many.
First you don't have chatterboxes beside you who would actually eat your head and you are free to concentrate on the sight seeing and try and see new things in the already existing reminiscence of the great past....
Anyways so I went to the Charminar ,and boy the monument did look good. The surrounding was pathetic,rest was fine though. So I clicked some pics there,whatever angles I could judge to be the best. The best one was the the picture I took from the middle of the street. The divider was too thin to keep the traffic segregated. Yet I stood on it and went clicking click click click.
So after finishing with it,I went to the nearby Mecca Masjid. A Monumental place indeed,too bad a bomb blast had taken place her killing many. ... Yet the place looked magnificent.
Then it was time to move on. I went to Golconda Fort,the reason for the existence of the Hyderabad city. Here it was where Md. Tuli,kept the name of the Hyderabad city as Hyderabad city after the name of his wife....who first I don't remember had some Hindu name which she converted to Hydera,or something like that.......
I returned to the campus that day and the next day ie,the 27th of June I with bag and baggage,vacated ISB completely. I then went to the Nampalli station where I could get a bus to the Ramoji Film City. As usual,I arrived late. And all the buses had left by 10. So what were my options...reserve an auto or a taxi which would have cost me a bomb. While the bus trip(to and return) would have cost me a mere 150/- to reserve an ato meant shelling 400/- or a taxi 600/-... as if I was willing to shell so much. So I did some research,went and talked to a few locals in their style of broken Hindi with a South Indian touch, and they indeed helped me alot. ?They guieded me to Khotti Station form where I could get a local bus to Ramoji Film City for a mere 10/-...damn what a price,even cheaper thean the earlier option of reserving the bus. So took an auto went to the Khoti bus station,caught the bus and here I was at the Ramoji film city,.....

Ramoji Film City:
A magnificient place indeed.But the entry was 300/- but worth it. a 2000 acres(or hectares) I don't remember,spread amongst the beautiful plateau and a little jungle, Ramoji was indeed a place worth visiting.So from the entrance gate we sat on a bus that after a 15-20 min drive took us inside. And wow,what a plce magical indeed. I had never been to a Film City and indeed it was an great experience. We saw how the shooting is done,how sound mixing is done. A nice thrilling expereince in the Ramoji Tower. and then the sight seeing at the different sets. There was a polic station(shot in many movies), the Hospital(whereMunnabhai studied :-) )....the place where RGV's jungle was shot,duplicate Gateway of India,Taj Mahal, Mughal Garden,bus station, market...... to say the least it was an awesome experience......

So by the time I returned to the main city it was 7 and time tro return to Delhi......
Indeed a magnificient journey to Hyderabad,... it was fun as well as a learning experience.....I simpli loved these 4-5days there...