*LUCKNOW & the Lucknowities* The ‘Pehle-aap, Pehle-aap’ thing isn’t a joke. Mind you, it happens here. When asked why do we always speak in plural, we always proudly say ‘It’s a City of Nawabs and this is the Nawabi style’. We love it when we talk to non-lucknowities like ‘Ama yaar..’ and their eyes go wide. If you don’t use words like ‘Dhaansu’ and ‘Bhaukali’, dude you are missing half of the fun. If you come to Lucknow and miss the ‘Tunde-Kabab’ (if you are not a vegetarian) then I promise you will regret if for whole of your life, like seriously! The only place on earth, where even an abusive slang is sugar coated and prefixed with ‘AAP’ Like a dog hates water, we hate the word ‘TU’ We have the weirdest nomenclatures of places, Bhootnath, Daana-Paani, Wire-less Chauraha, Hahnemann chauraha ( often confused as Honeymoon chauraha ) and the list goes on. When you hear ‘Phod dena’ as a good luck wish from someone, have no doubt, he/she is definitely from Lucknow. If you know all the ‘Khands’ of gomti-nagar, dude you deserve a standing-ovation. We don’t need Sarcasm. We possess the ability to threaten someone to death with sugar coated words. ‘Jugaad’, ‘Banda/Bandi’, ‘Setting’, ‘Maamla’, ‘Scene’, ‘Matter’ are the most frequent words used by us. A, B, C, D are not just alphabets for us. They refer to the blocks of Indira-nagar When whole India uses ‘Chutte’ for change, we use ‘Toote’ for the same thing. If you don’t raise your eyebrows when you hear someone wearing ‘Chikan’ then definitely you are a Lucknowite. We have a special love for ‘Royal cafe’ no matter how many options we have to dine at we chose it without a second thought. May be the reason for our ‘Dhaansu Luck’ lies in the name of city itself. After all we belong to ‘LUCK-NOW
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:00:36 +0000
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