What do big names in international politics do after they are done with the Rashtrapathi Bhavan welcome and traditional state dinner in Delhi? They come to Hyderabad, of course. From Bill Clinton, to George Bush everyone comes to the city that is taking over the mantle of being the second capital of India.
Now it’s the turn of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President to drop in at Hyderabad. The man who is the prime target of Al Qaida will arrive in Hyderabad on 11th April and will leave on 12thApril. Security will be tight for President Karzai, who is protected by plain clothes CIA officers and American Secret Service.
Karzai is salted to visit the Hitec City, where he will be taken around Tata Consultancy Services and National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA). There will be the customary social do of patting the buffalo or sizing up a sheaf of paddy at the National Institute of Rural Development. Other plans, if any are not being disclosed.
That in simple English means that the traffic will go haywire, and cars will be stacked up bumper to bumper and tempers will be on top burner. President Bush spared us of those blues, when took the aerial route in Hyderabad aboard Marine One.
We need not crib that badly about the traffic mayhem. You cannot have the best of world leaders if you want to be one of Asia’s ten mega cities – other Indian citieas are Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi. (according to a Asian Development Bank report). More of that in another post.
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