I am a Hyderabadi. I was born here, spent most of my life here and I currently live here. But Internet Culture or Blogging is not something that is very common in Hyderabad. We have a very active microblogging community on Twitter and equally active forum on Reddit but that’s about it. Or so I thought.

I rewatched an old favourite movie recently and started to read the reviews of it from the time it released. I noticed a particular review from fullhyd.com. The name of the author was familiar but I couldn’t exactly figure it out. So I went to the site and sadly was not able to find the actual review page. But I started poking around and found the glorious fullhyd blogs page. I always thought I was one of the early people on the internet screaming into the void from Hyderabad but it turns out I was wrong (as usual) and there were a lot of people before me. There were reviews, advertisements, interviews and each page’s design was unique. A personal favourite from the blog called “http://kyablogkarte.fullhydblogs.com“:

One of the main things that bugged me while reading them was they were blogging about the same damn things we talk about. Peer pressure, toxic families, marriage pressures, quotes, rants about traffic and occassional blogger drama. How did I miss this!

Another post that I would like to highlight is by someone called “rock_26iin”.

This person’s last blog post was from 2009. They posted this after 15 years. They don’t explicitly mention who this is meant for but it is very clear that they regret their actions badly and are in pain. The post ends like this:

I know you will probably never ever read this. If you even did, all you may feel is spite. But on the remotest possibility that you don’t, will you be my friend?

I am not going to lie, that made me tear up a little. I know how it feels to lose people. It is incredibly difficult to move on after losing the life you wanted while the reality around you feels so uninteresting. Your past keeps haunting you and holding you back from achieving things in such a way that you are neither able to get back what you wanted, nor able to do anything new while you are lamenting in a limbo. So rock_26iin, wherever you are, I hope you find peace one day.

I spent so many hours digging through the rabbit hole. I’m going to post some of my favourite posts below. I urge you to go through them and spend some time.

Links:

1. Platonic Plaque by aphrodite, 08 June 2004
2. Insane Sonu.. by XYZee, 2 Jun 2005
3. Dreams of Hope in a Land of Nightmares by Aabhaa, 06 October 2011
4. What’s wrong with a Biryani? by Ariza, 10 June 2011
5. Kanthri Roads by Neurotron, 3 January 2005
6. 20 Qs with Mr. Kadiyala of fullhyd.com by Hitesh Sarda. Not exactly a blog post but an interview of Kishore Kadiyala who seems to be the founder(?) of fullhyd.com