Ashish Chowdhury

A little more enthusiastic about dining and getting around in Hyderabad than the average Chicha.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@ramarajapk @ShamsheerShahul @LiveLawIndia @Cockroachisback @SauravDassss @AshutoshRanka were they robbing a bank?

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@gdpishere Did UMT mean Under the Mango Tree? 😄

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Scam Nation

[Tabassum Barnagarwala @tabassum_b]

VB-G RAM G scheme is a scam, at least in Beed. The scheme was being manipulated to add fake attendance, fake work sites.We traced 47 workers in 5 sites & found that they didnt know their name was listed. Crores are being siphoned off. Read the story here.
https://t.co/R7H23gfbQK

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@watARSHmelon Grab a crab omelette (look for alternatives to Jay Fai's - they're all good).

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@laalsaalan are these the kind of folks passing for kuchu-puchu lately?

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

.@CMC_Offcl @MC_Cyberabad, it's not even been 10 days since the critical KPHB-Hafeezpet stretch in front of Indu Fortune Fields got patch work done and it's come apart already - with water pooling around and the lack of streetlights here posing serious danger. Please address.

[Cyberabad Municipal Corporation @CMC_Offcl]

@ash_chowder @MC_Cyberabad Ashish Garu,
The issue has been brought to the attention of the concerned officer for necessary action.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Yeah this is also Hyderabad pretty much lately so don't look this way if you seek a better lifestyle, folks

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

Shifted out of Mumbai last week. Gradually realised the city will be in a perpetual state of construction since that's how contractors and in turn ministers will make money. So there'll always be that next project, next renovation to make your life tough. And if nothing else, they'll break an existing one completed just few years ago to make something bigger. Living in Mumbai constantly felt like life in hard mode. And with a baby in picture, wanted to have a little bit of greenery and space around. And eventually schools with space.
Used to love the city when I came 9 years back from Delhi. But something shifted some years back, specially post lockdown. Incidentally I think Mumbai was good to live as long as 'Dilli se aaya hai kya?' used to be an insult. Now let's see..

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

SD Road essentials

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@Spxxxya 🔥🔥

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Also overheard: Hyderabadi Bengalis taking pride in living in Viksit Bharat adjacent, suddenly coming to terms with extreme inflation in the markets, when their Gobindo Bhog rice purchases for dessert this festive season costs 260+/kilo instead of the usual 110-120.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Pandal-hopping across west Hyd today came with a generous side of WhatsApp University news bytes from folks waiting in line for bhog. Good to know Dhruv Rathee, Umar Khalid & Neha Bora are now part of mainstream conversations. The concocted backstories are something else though.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@dhfm_raghu Possibly. But with the lights and everything now, it's probably the best facade on that entire stretch 🫡

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Holy shit the newly renovated Kolkata House on Kondapur road is so bangali thakurbari coded! Complete flip-over from its decades-old avatar

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@indyan The new facade was under wraps until recently I guess? Cuz I travel on that route a fair bit and noticed they shut it down a few months back for renovations.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@Jerrybraden92 @BonJovi @jonbonjovi Hoping the band acknowledges that there exists an Asia beyond Japan 🥲

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Korameenu / Murrel / Snakehead fish. Scored by yours truly.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Came across a fishmonger in a town called Bhanur b/w Mokila & Patancheru today evening and she asked me to bend into her drum-tank and catch my own fish, as she was pregnant. Ruined my new kurta in the process but boy did I provide a spectacle for my parents and others in line 🫡

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Came across a fishmonger in a town called Bhanur b/w Mokila & Patancheru today evening and she asked me to bend into her drum-tank and catch my own fish, as she was pregnant. Ruined my new kurta in the process but boy did I provide a spectacle for my parents and others in line 🫡

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@arpitachatter Democracy requires *enough* people to work together for a start. Everyone can be a daunting goal 👀

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Please amplify!

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

@guiltypressurre Both tomorrow. Been exploring the scene this side today and I've got no FOMO at all 😊 these explorations started in Kondapur / Narsingi and landed me somewhere beyond Patancheru though.

[Ashish Chowdhury @ash_chowder]

Pandal-hopping across west Hyd today came with a generous side of WhatsApp University news bytes from folks waiting in line for bhog. Good to know Dhruv Rathee, Umar Khalid & Neha Bora are now part of mainstream conversations. The concocted backstories are something else though.