Monday 20 August 2012

Love and music in the air


Lallaguda, a suburb of Secunderabad, was also known as ‘Little England’ almost a century ago as it was home for the huge Anglo-Indian community lived there. Lying close to Malkajgiri, Lallaguda is covered with railway quarters. It is divided into south and north Lallaguda by the railway track dividing it.
A few years back, nearly hundred Anglo-Indian families lived in the Railway quarters of South Lallaguda along with 10 Parsi families in one lane. Christmas used to be a carnival in this once quaint suburb, which would be decorated with lights and stars throughout Christmas and New Year. Now there are very few Anglo Indians but still there is a lot of love and music in the streets.

However, now over 60% of them have migrated elsewhere in the city and other countries such as England and Australia. The boom in real estate has made this once picturesque suburb into a concrete jungle.

It is completely a Railways area with quarters, workshops, Railway Hospital, schools, Junior and degree colleges, officers’ club, golf course, function halls, handicrafts training center for women etc. It's a very good and peaceful residential area with many facilities provided by the Railways for its employees.

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