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
The Bach 
Hi,
I just happened to come to your blog site on a tag search on India. Liked your North South post 🙂
I used to talk to my ex-boss about our regional differences and he (a Canadian) was amused by it. Everytime I mention a dish name or a person’s name, he would ask ‘South? or North?’. It is a sad state 🙂
cheers.VT
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@Ramyaji,
Thanks for sharing; you don’t roam around blogosphear these days is it.
@Veenaji
Oops. !! Ok, you can expect more in second category now. I am relatively free to read and write blogs.
@Venkatesh
I don’t feel its sad. But hating differences is sad. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice post dude … touched my heart
U are totally correct dude …
Keep Bloggin !!
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maruti,
Thank you sir.
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Language – Tamil, tamil and tamil. Even if they know Hindi, they dont speak up.
Did he visit Chennai during the thiruvalluvar era or before Christ? Chennai is really turning cosmopolitan. He/She can survive in Chennai with English.
See the skyscrapercity forums about Chennai projects. Once this person goes to New York, he will complain English . English. English everywhere.. Hamara national language idhar Nahin Hai. Because He does not know English, which is apparent from his critics.
People – We never heard anyone laughing here (I wonder if they ever laugh or shout)
So conservative, that noone talks even in the bus
Laugh or shout??? Shout on what? Want to hear shouting? Go to Ranganathan Street to hear grocers shouting. Noone means what? (Searched in the dictionary. Could not find that word). Just to comment, this guy is saying nobody is laughing, hugging … Why? In his Bihar does everybody laugh and shouts and kills in the bus?
Food – Idly, sambhar, rice, dosa, vada, pongal
We have to cook our food ourselves (unbelievable naa).
Worked as a server in some hotel? Nice listing. Is cooking our food unbelievable. Then who will cook his food? His neighbour?
Weather – summer from October to Feb and rest of the year it’s deadly summer.
By the way does he not stay in his air conditioned office? I think this guy roams all the day on the road with a thermometer in his hand.
Lesiure – TV, dormitery, dirty sea beaches on weekends
Dormitery – means? Tired of making corrections. Suggest rapidex English speaking/writing course for this person.
Rent – 6.5 K / 1 BHK
Agreed. Chennai is getting expensive, due to inflation and the business opportunities it is getting nowadays. Chennai is next only to Bangalore
In IT exports. Auto capital of India, Hard ware (Computers and electronics) capital of India ….. No wonder the rent is 6.5 k /1 BHK.
Advance – 6 months
Do not have money to pay advance? Pity you.
How will you manage to pay 10 months advance in Bangalore and Hyderabad and 11 months advance in Mumbai?
Guess this guy has guest houses all over India.
Aata – Rs. 26 /kg
Is this Aata mixed with Gold?
Apple – Rs 100 /kg
Are you a wholesale vendor?
Orange – Rs. 10/piece
Are you talking about an orange or a jack fruit?
Banana – Rs 3 /piece
Sounds reasonable to me. Go and work in interior villages as VAO (Village administrative officer). You will get free bananas from farmers.
Mausmi Juice – Rs 18 /glass
Is this his girl friend’s name? I am not doing a spell check assuming that.
Jeans Dryclean – Rs.40
Do you dry clean your jeans everyday? Wear formals to your office.
Phulka – Rs. 8 (idly also Rs.8)
Contradictory. Somebody complained that they are not getting North Indian foods. Let me google to find out, whether you get anything for 50 NP in any other part of the world. I feel that is what you can afford to spend for a phulka or Idli.
In Chennai you get south Indian foods, North Indian, Bengali, Italian, Mexican, Continental and many other international cuisines to my knowledge. Don’t just try out the alu paratha and fart. Come out. Be cosmopolitan. Try something different.
Interesting facts and incidents :
1. Here you cannot buy a needle after 6 PM (strange).
I think he is in desperate need of needles. I would ask the shop owners to sell needles for you.
2. We asked an auto driver, “hindi aati hai”?. He replied in hindi “Hindi nahi aati”.
What does he mean by this…? If he would have asked the auto driver whether he know English he would have said ‘Yes. I know English. Do you know?’.
3. The most common suffix here is ‘a’, e.g. Straight – straighta 2 cup tea – 2 cupa tea
No comments. They never knew that you do not know English.
4. Even dogs eat curd rice.
In North India, do dogs eat pasta and Mexican cuisine?
5. In north, names are like Gori Shankar, gauri prasad etc. Here the names are like Kaliraj, kalicharan etc.
You meant to say Gouri Shankar? This guy is making mistakes even when writing names. I do not know why he has a personal grudge against Kali.
6. When there is a ‘t’ in any name, they add ‘h’ to it.
jayant – jayanth
bharat – Bharath
Does ‘h’ Make you to sneeze? What is your problem with letter ‘h’?
7. Here is a culture of adding mystical alphabets after ones’s name, like Mahesh R, Sandeep T etc.
He wants to add surnames to know about their history, caste, region. A typical name he would like is
‘Bommarillu Sri Venkata gudur srinivasa rao bahadur gumaltic kapoor’.
8. 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).
Agreed.
9. Infy office is actually not in chennai, it comes under a district called Chengalpet which is 45 kms from main city.
Good observation man. What is the milestone? Is Noida and Gurgaon a part of Delhi???
10. 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!!)
‘exited’. I cannot control my laughter here. So I am not making any corrections here. Pity this guy as he is after the food that the girls bring instead of the girls.
11. How dare anyone come to chennai : Infosys Chennai MCity comes under SEZ(special economic zone), swap and transfers from here are not possible.
Talk to your manager. Ask your company to start an office in Panipat and place you there.
12. No life after 9 PM.
What do you do between 6:00 and 9:00 PM? You said all the shops are closed after 6? (Dry cleaning your shabby jeans???).
13. No need to worry for Tsunami, because noone will be left to cry on your grave.
Why? Last tsunami has taken away your phulka, jeans and your rapidex English speaking course book?
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heah, nice blog.. but dont generalize by taking a few examples,.. there are always a couple of few prejudiced rotten ones ..
I am in one of the National Institutes and here we have ppl from all states(due to the state quota system at NIT/REC’s), here often the state fundas usually arise and it is not just north/south.. It is punjabi-rajastani or himachali-non himachalu etc. it is the inherent behavior of ppl to sectionalize into groups.. dont brand them as north-south divide or anything.. Xenophobia is universal..!!!
Ya and the madrasi thing u talked about is really irritation… i am a malayali and mostly in trains(in north) ppl usually identify me as sambar-idli eating madrasi, some times it really gets into the nerves…
Ya and we southies are also not tat accomodating., even we also used 2 bitch a lot about north indian food and habits when we initially came here..
Well it is this mutli culturalism that makes me love my country so much, without this india will cease to be India…
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yep and forgot… a hai hind to that
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Hi All,
After seeing this debate ( which is useless) I wonder where we r leading. Iam from a small town in Andhra and lived up there for 23 years and later roamed all big cities in India ( like Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad mumbai and pune).
My father used to say, in older days people doesn’t know much about and they dont have any feeling about south or north indians. They know only thing that we r Indians. When any Politican or Leader comes from north india to south( like Gandhi, Nehru, Vallabai) they used to priased them as gods only. Do we have such feeling now? They know that there are some culture, food , traditions diff amonng S and N but these were given less importance as thier primary goal is to get rid of British govt.
Now tech is improved but our thinking
is going back.
Language and Accent diff: There is no speicific language which is very strong entirely. For eg., Telugu is one of the purest language and it is well known as Italian of the east and the telugu grammer is the biggest in the world. But I don’t admit this as true as I dont know much really about this topic. But I can say that telugu is the only language where you can pronounce each and every word ( this is my observaion )
for eg., Tamilians substitie “Ga” inplace of “KA”,
Telugu/Kannada: Karthik
Tamil/Malayalam: Karthig
Mahesh: in tamil they pronounce as Magesh.
Like tamilians cannot differentiate between pa,ba
Most of north indians cannot pronounce: Va also class, glass, club, devendra ( they pronounce as kallas, gallas, kallub, devendur…)
Food: People tend to eat which ever is available locally. For eg., Iam from Godavari dist in AP people will eat only Rice ( they dont eat chapthis at all, no raagi and others) but in rayalaseem telangana area in AP they will rice, raagi, jonna and other local avialable food.
I used to get frustrated by seeing north indian breakfast in Delhi, ( in Andhra, we ear Idli, dosa(10 variities in dosa), upma( 5 varities in upma) , puri, chapathi,mysore bajji and rice made breakfast like lemontice, tamarind rice, pongal and so on)
but In Delhi, They used to ear Morning: parantha, afternoon: parantha and Night: parantha ..
To be frankly speaking I dont have any problems in ( Indeed i like N food much) as lunch and dinner) but breakfast is horrible.
Language: Since Hindi is our second lang in our shcools, I can happily read, write and I can converse well. But it doesn’t mean that hindi needs not be imposed on us so as to forget our sweet language in future.
Does any North indians who stays in south for long time, try to speak south languages? first of all they dont show interest. and logical skills are reqt to learn a new language but northies always fails in this..
but I admit that Gujjus who settle everywhere in India for their business they will easily converse with the local langs.
Hating: with in Andhra, culturue and traditions, language and accent varies from district to dist. again in south india no 2 cultures r same. in north india from every 100km culture ( atleast little) will be varied???
To be precise, with in a single family no two members speaks as it is, behaves as it is? India is nearing 100 crores so will have millions of diffs..
We will write lot of pages in such debates, but if we need to really work towards Indian devleopment ( for eg., particiapating in war) nobody will be ( including me ) is ready to sacrifies their personal life)… so we dont have any rights to participate in such debates until unless if there is any real use of such debates.
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An extension to Mr. Chinni’s previous post:
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6. When there is a ‘t’ in any name, they add ‘h’ to it.
jayant – jayanth
bharat – Bharath
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This is to differentiate between “T” and “TH”.
In all Indian languages we have GUNINTHAS for “T”
like TA , THA , DA, DHA
for eg., SuniTHA ( if you write suniTA then we have to pronounce like english men)
for rita ( we wrte RITA as english men’s pronounciation and local pronounciation is same)
But if you give the spelling of suniTA then how an english men pronounces?? thats why we write suniTHA ( which is correct for pronouncing)
make sense????
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“Bisi Bele Bath”
I love this, never miss a chance to have this when in B’lore
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