Hyder Ali is made Hyadri (letter)

by MUKUL DUBE

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I knew Aditi Rao Hydari since she was a child. I am alarmed that so many, including supposedly responsible newspapers and news related web sites, describe her as Hyadri — presumably a derivative of “Sahyadri”. Has no one heard of Hyder (or Hydar or Haidar) Ali and the city of Hyderabad? Is this mass illiteracy or mass dyslexia?

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