And then we walked past one of the cutest Police Stations I have ever seen, down the road past the Police chowki and then came upon the Musallam Jung bridge which is the one that has tons of pigeons on it. One side of the bridge is only for feeding pigeons and many families stop there buy grain from people selling it and stop there enjoying themselves.
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| Musallam Jung bridge (Pigeon bridge to me) - all pics courtesy Sunnie |
This bridge was built in 1893 by the 6th Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan. The bridge was damaged in the 1908 floods and restored again. It followed the Purana Pul bridge and the Afzal Gunj bridge to connect the Hyderabad city to peripheral areas (or now, to connect the new city to the old city).
We were getting off the bridge and then I saw this old old woman with the most brilliant smile asking me for alms. I just could not refuse her and gave her a nice twenty just to see if that smile could get any better. It did. Eyes that are full of smiles.
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