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. just read the comments….hell!! messed up readers, lmao. people don’t think before pulling the trigger. you should have released this in parts man. That advocate was funny too. Reply to mine if you like. not necessary though 😀

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  2. The North-South divide is not that easy to bridge. Though there are many similarities amongst Indians hailing from different directions on the map, these are all overlooked in the sight of the slightest difference. And it is the differences that end up being highlighted.

    I do not expect someone in Chennai to know Hindi as it might not serve an utilitarian purpose. I would rather invest in a small book which would teach me elementary Tamil to deal with the autorickshaw drivers better.

    It is really sad when people fail to see the positive side of cultural differences, whereas being in touch with something different from that you are used to is indeed a very enriching experience.

    I too have heard of the ‘know Hindi but won’t speak’ many a times and also the woes of ‘having idly, sambhar, rice, dosa, vada, pongal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.’ But where’s the problem? When in Rome aren’t we supposed behave like the Romans. In case we wish continue acting like the Gauls that we are, we would be in need of some generous doses of Getafix’s magic potion. Crib a little, but adjust. There isn’t a way out. And it is also the best thing to do.

    I’m from the North East and would identify with hypocrisies of the ‘other’ India first hand.

    And I liked the “Bengali’s don’t take bath” part. Didn’t hear of that before.

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  3. I somehow bumped into this blog!!!!

    Chinna’s comments had me in splits…esp the
    “Even dogs eat curd rice.

    In North India, do dogs eat pasta and Mexican cuisine?” and

    ‘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.

    I think Chinna should start a Standup-Comedy show, no kidding 🙂

    Good job Chinna and Bachodi.

    -Kavitha …oh ya i have the ‘hech’ in my name 😉

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  4. Interesting post. Many people feel bad about the small issues that we Indians keep fighting over all the time.
    And yes, we are probably the most racist people because we hate our own people.
    I recently wrote on how the diversity in India is actually turning out to be not such a great thing. South Indians hating North Indians, and vice versa, the language issue, the separatist tendencies…these are not going to get India anywhere.

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  5. Coz, where ever one goes, try to fit all south battalian, shame on u guys and even u guys talk in ur language even though a non- southy is around.
    Why the hell u guys come to north for jobs and all and critisize our things, get a job in south india, I hate u guys

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  6. some south guys in the blog were with cautioning note of being working in south india, here i would like to tell u the word called vice- versa, tit for tat…..

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  7. the reasons i see in the southies is they are pessimistic, inferior in every footage………..
    cheers mate, thats it coz i worked with especially tamils and andhraites they are …………….

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