Whats in a Name? Apparantly, a wealth of History!!
Revisiting History - An Etymology of Hyderabad City's Street and Area Names. As modern city dwellers, we lead such busy lives, that we rarely stop to think of the history of the city we live in or the about the people who shaped its past. And certainly we do not really ever pause to think why our individual history of the areas they live in and the historical significance of the area names. In this section, i invite readers to take some time off their busy schedules and take a walk into the past to catch a glimpse of the people who lent their names to the areas or look at some interesting features of a place that ended up lending their names to the areas. A case in point being a mosquito infested lower tank bund area which came to be famously called after the mosquitoes that plagued its resident - yes you are right, its Dommalguda, dommal in Telugu meaning mosquito or the infamous mutri galli where people urinated in public. Moving to less unsavory or...