I stumbled onto a Flickr photostream of old Hyderabad. Black and white. Nizam era. Half of it showing monuments I’ve never been to.
Two and a half years here. Some of those places are ten minutes from the office. I’ve walked past the turnoffs for most of them. I never turned.
It’s an ugly thing to admit. You can live in a place and not see it. You treat it like a room you’re passing through to get to the next thing.
I’m making a list. Planning to visit a few of them over the next couple of weeks, before the holidays eat everything. The monuments are still there. Some are half-ruined by now, but still there.
Never too late to start looking.