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This day, that age

Secunderabad will turn 200-years-old on June 2, 2007. But Secunderabad is not a date, it is a place and people who made it happen. Like the man from Rajura (now in Maharashtra) who built the clock tower, the British officer with a whip riding in Oxford Street (now S. D. Road), or the time when a cobra slithered into the house of a 4-year-old M. L. Jaisimha and his brother smashed it with a cricket bat or the Marredpally girls (one of them got married to Jai) who woke up to the pealing of St Mary's church bells. But there is more to Secunderabad than these anecdotes. As we march to that date in 2007, Shyamola Khanna begins a column about those good ole days.

She will cover the communities, the old schools, the old churches and temples, the shops and the general hangouts along with everything else that contributed to the lifestyle of Secunderabad and made it what it is today.

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