South-Indians , North-Indians and hypocrisies

Nobody needs to teach Indian hypocrisy and stereotyping; it’s a gift in their blood. We love to laugh at another person’s mole on his nose, while we are standing in a pit full of cow dung. South Indians disliking north Indians, North Indians don’t like south Indians and both together dislike north-east Indians. In fact North-east Indians itself is new usage, for the rest of India they are just “Chinkis”. It’s not racist, just sense of humor.

One more thing common among all of them is “my daddy … Strooongest!!!’. We have the best culture, language, community and nature; we are best analyzers, psychologists and of course rest of them live in a fish pond. Those people don’t like Mohanlal to be hero in this age are O.K with Rishi Kapur dancing with girl of his grand daughter’s age. We are O.K with Salman Khan’s pink trouser but Vijaykanth’s yellow shirt is so funny.

One of the most general and popular “happy to be ignorant” story is about a place called Madras in India. People live there are madarassis. For south Indians it is one metropolitan city which is now named as Chennai. But unfortunately for north Indians it is a wide unexplored area comes in south to Maharashtra and Orissa. (For north east Indians it does not matter. Geographically south India has four different states and six to seven different languages, for north Indians it is just madras. The rest of the India thinks whole madras speaks one language Tamil and they survive with Idly Sambar Vada. We made a big deal when Celebrity big brother’s sister did not learn Shilpa’s name isn’t it?

Knowing Hindi is one more misconception around. People worried why rest of the world not bothered learn Hindi. Well why should they? States are organized as linguistic regions. Every state has its own language; they are official and national language as Hindi. Why complain people over there don’t understand my language?


This kind of assumptions and misconceptions works other way round also. Kashmiri’s don’t love India, Bengali’s don’t take bath, Assamee’s are extremists etc. Generally this or any of such issues are fought in mails and posts. One starts and there will be avalanche of mails/comments, cause it’s easy to write offending mails/posts.

This post ( This is Indian Racism) I can mention here is a person who is pissed off with the terrorism panic in Bangalore. People of North Indian origin is asked to register details in nearby police station (to be sure he has no records) and this guy goes Fs ad Bs. There was an analysis and it was found any of south Indians did not participate in freedom fights.

Now my message to those living out in their ponds like the frogs who never knew what it is like being outside….

You guys ever knew how a war is fought (65, 71, Kargil )? None from South Indian community was ever engaged in Struggle for Freedom

The stupids of North India fight for India, die for India and u guys say they all are terrorists and you are different coz they are Northies. huh!!! Thanklessness Personified!!!! God forbid, if anything like Tsunami occurs again, from North Indian people’s side, nothing will change. These Pseudo Indians will ask for Rice from North Indians. And then we North Indians will donate it and don’t worry we will not poison it then.

Grow up you South Indians…I wish u cud…

Update: all Fs and Bs are deleted in his post.

Strange analyses and may be it explains lot of things. Biharis getting kicked in Assam can be argued right back since Battle of Plassy ( seventeen hundreds I guess ), don’t ask me connection . And of course why marathi’s hate kannadiga’s in belagam ( currently Belagavi I guess ) is because kannadiga’s did not fight for Shivaji against Aurangazeb five hundred years back. May be they did but that is not a point.

One mails also I want to mention here. Some techie living in Chennai, has lot of complaints. Some of them may be valid, the others I tried to answer here (and send him a link to this post )

Language – Tamil, Tamil and Tamil. Even if they know Hindi, they dont speak up.

Aren’t there any place where India where Hindi Hindi and only Hindi , or Bengali Bengali and only Bengali ? When you are not learning a local language when you are living in it , why are you expecting them to learn a language which is rarely used in their town. and about “even if they know Hindi they dont speak is highly exaggerated. There are some proud , conservative people but they are exceptional cases. Why would an auto driver or a cigarette shop owner ( Most of the time you interact with only these ) does not talk to you in Hindi ( even if he knows ) . There is life he has and he needs to earn to live.

Food – Idly, sambhar, rice, dosa, vada, pongal We have to cook our food ourselves (unbelievable naa). “Even dogs eat curd rice ,”

Once we saw a girl in the food court, she was looking and acting like a north Indian. My friend became exited and planned to talk to her, but just then we noticed her breakfast and then “dil ke armaan aansuon mein beh gaye”, she was having pongal. (disguise!!)

What about places where only roti, naan, alu parantha? Dude what will you do if you go to Italy ? eat pizza / pasta or complain that you don’t get Tanduri items

We asked an auto driver, “Hindi aati hai”?. He replied in Hindi “Hindi nahi aati”.

At least that. If a tamilian comes to Delhi or Mumbai and asks “Tamil terima ?/kannada barutta ” will he reply as ” teriyad/gottila ” . He will say ” go to hell / bhad me jao ” isn’t it ?

The most common suffix here is ‘a’, e.g. straight – straighta 2 cup tea – 2 cupa tea

Local language influence. Have you ever defined “Istyle ” and “Iskool “

When there is a ‘t’ in any name, they add ‘h’ to it. jayant – jayanth bharat – bharath . Here is a culture of adding mystical alphabets after ones’s name, like Mahesh R, Sandeep T etc.

Why do always people think their language is best and according to UNICODE standards ? Does people here write ” athal ” for ” atal bihari “. I have written about it here as What’s wrong with your name

Some more of them I don’t want to answer(and which also doesn’t need one ).

Here you cannot buy a needle after 6 PM (strange) No life after 9 PM.

Weather – summer from October to feb and rest of the year it’s deadly summer.
Cable connection is of no use here as only tamil channels are broadcasted on cable TV, if anyone wanna watch hindi channels then you need to buy a set up box (Rs.4000).

People – We never heard anyone laughing here (I wonder if they ever laugh or shout) So conservative, that noone talks even in the bus

246 thoughts on “South-Indians , North-Indians and hypocrisies

  1. Fantastic Blog post Brother!

    Yeah if we are ever to get along with each other as People on this Planet we will have to lose our Ethnic hatreds & Tribal mentality*

    Cheers! Billy ;))

    Peace*

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  3. I like yourd post and it was someone sensible like u who made me feel bad so much so that all Fs and Bs are removed from my page.
    I am not sure abt the sense why I shud make fun of someone eating pongal or his/her being a south indian.

    teach that chennai techie that aishwarya is also a south indian.I am not sure abt the history u mentioned abt all these hatred things but we are doing no good to remove all this crap from our mind even now.
    I am follower of a honest leader of my town and I ‘might’ become a leader in future in my town. I will always remember what happens to North Indians when they go to South. But will I ever take revenge from a few south guys there up-north? No.
    I know how bad it feels being called/suspected to be a terrorist or discriminated just becoz u were born in North India. I dint have a choice, Did I???

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  4. Despite all this, South Indian’s like eating nan-roti/dal makhni, kadai veg and Northies relish Bisi Bele Bath.. Its only till they taste it once…
    Likewise, may be once both of them know the reality this might help the misconception & they might stop suspecting the rest of the world 🙂
    Good Post (after a looong time! :-))

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  5. i have read the post “This is Indian racism” too, which you mentioned. i didnt not comment there because i thought it was waste giving a advise to a fool. the author just wanted to create some controversy and wnated repleis from fellow bloggers. just ignore them.

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  6. I patted myself on the back after reading such a long (often incoherent) post (you see, north Indians can’t focus for more than a few milliseconds ;). You seem to have committed the mistake of stereotyping north Indians, admitting your mediocrity.

    That said, I want to tell you that a number of north Indians get along very well with south Indians, and vice versa. I am from north India and enjoy south Indian food (curry patta is yummy!, no pun intended, and so are banana chips), hospitality, culture and lifestyle. You’d be surprised to know that north Indians happen to be more accommodative of other cultures, cuisines, dresses and lifestyles than you think, with the exception of those who have never been to other places.

    I believe that south Indians (especially Tamils) should learn to speak Hindi, as it happens to be our “national language” and not just a regional language.

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  7. @ billy
    Cheers. And thank you

    @Hiren4u
    Thank you.

    @batrasden
    Yes I understand bro. Its freedom of speech, if you have issues please blog them.

    @veenaji
    “ after a long time “ ?? I thought you liked my previous post “Sanskrit quotes on blogging”

    @ Kaushik
    I don’t completely agree with you. Look at his comment in my post above

    @ Aryan
    Thank you for identifying my post as incoherent. That’s what a scribble is, right (my blog name). People find arguments improperly structured/ presented if they don’t find anything to argue in the basic issue. So thank you.

    About “north Indians happen to be more accommodative of other cultures”. I did not write otherwise did I ?. My problem is People expecting other cultures accommodating theirs.

    About your comment on Hindi, All official 27 (may be more now) have same status. Tamil, Kannada etc are not just regional languages; they are official languages and officially identified and national languages.

    Wikipedia says
    “Neither the constitution nor the laws of India accord the status of “National Language” to any language in India[1]. Indian law states that no language will be made the National Language unless and until all the constituent states of the Union of India accept it. Out of the 28 states and 7 union territories, only 10 states and 3 union territories have Hindi as the principal official language.

    Now your argument fails isn’t it? No worries ,,, Its everyone’s misconception that Hindi is our national language. Now please don’t label me , I am very fluent in Hindi.

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  8. A very well written piece of writing. Its the simple statement that captured the whole essence of this “my daddy’s the strongest”. Yes we all feel that what we are/we own/we belong to etc., etc, are THE Best and rest all is secondary. I’ve always wondered about this. In our office we’ve a cultural fest every year and the employe are grouped into teams randomly. This year I’m against the team member who was in my team last year and am greatly supporting against him/her just because I believe “my” (read the team I belong to) team is the best!!. Isn’t it the same with everything else… family, friends,culture, state and EVEN the country?? One thing i’ve failed to understand so far is the definition of “patriotism”. What is that makes me feel/think that I’m superior to some one else just next to me.
    Bachodi, kudos to your writng.. made me re-think a lot… and made me write so long after a looong time 🙂

    Keep it going!!

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