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There are four South Indian states and we are all NOT Madrasis! For that matter, even Madrasis are not Madrasis anymore. They/We are called Chennai-ites.
The name of the state is Tamil Nadu and NOT Tamilnad. Were you taught the letter "u" when you were in LKG? We dont go about calling ur state as Delh or our country as Indi, leaving out the last letter, do we?
The name of the language is Kannada and not Kannud. The word is made up of 3 syllables and NOT 2. And no, Kannada is not the same as Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam. And No, the scripts dont look alike!!!
Just because the crow is the most abundant in our country, not all birds are crows. And NOT all people speak hindi.
"Kyun Ki" and "Mathlab Ki" or any other Godrej Key should not find itself in a proper English sentence. How would you like it if I added "vaa da" or a "po daa" in every line of English I spoke!?
We wash our hands before eating as it is considered hygenic. We wash our hands even if we eat with a spoon. And NO, you cannot eat a dosa with a spoon.
For Christ's sake, if someone asks "What is your name", please reply saying "I am Rahul" and not "Myself Rahul"!!
Coconut oil is good for the hair and Brylcreem is NOT. If u want good hair, use Coconut oil!!! Go Mallus!!
Paneer Butter Masala is not the only food in the world!!
Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam are NOT difficult to learn. "Yeshtu" is as easy to pronounce as "Kithnaa". Make an attempt to learn the language. You are in Karnataka for Pete's sake!!
South Indian names are not tongue twisters. Even Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman isnt a tongue twister!!!
"Manmadaha Raasa" and "Appadi Podu" are 'masala' songs and we love them. "Babuji" isnt the only masala song in the world!
Talking about dances, there are dance steps where you dont have to lift both ur arms and show "six signals" like an umpire does! Phuleez, learn some new steps people!
Diagonally stripped shirts are NOT cool!!!
DONT wear sun-shades inside the building. There is a Tamil saying about an "alpan" (loser) and an "umbrella". You remind me of that!!!
Follow this, and Bangalore will be a nice place to live in. Atleast for the south indians!!
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68 comments:
super apu!
Amen!
Capri, for one, would've sprained her neck nodding!
i dont understand y this post came up...but it was a nice read da...
wow! semma attack!!! :D
heheheh ouch for some ppl i think
Go, Vikki, Go..! Good one actually. People are too indulged in the self, and don't come out of their comfort zones and see that the world is much bigger than they had imagined.
Me too Me too spraining my neck nodding. Apart from wondering about the Sun glasses part :) Great post
nalla irundhudhu ba ,
had a hearty laugh:)
when on earth did u become a HR expert??
hehehe....teaches a good lesson to all those generalisers out there!
any bitter experience???
well i agree to what u hav written..
but see,, even we ppl(south) r not perfect.. they too complain a lot abt us..
a simple eg.. they say ,we cant pronounce the name of our country- bharath..(its bha..not ba)
like this there r many...
so u think all ppl in TN pronounce "tamilnadu" properly???
and coming to ur "madrasis" thing... tell me ..do u differentiate b/w all north,east,west indians?? no rt.. what we say??...even educated ppl say that...hindikaran(s)..
this issue can never be solved;)
one thing is making me a bit sad.. majority of the comments r on ur side..
well this is something where we have to think on where the fault is>>
@Eclectic: Thanks man :)
@Curses: Yeah, would like to hear what capri thinks of this! :)
@Shiv: I'll tell u why this post came up when we meet! :)
@Mythreyee: Welcome to the team .. hehe!
@Visithra: I sure hope the message is got loud and clear!
@Sanket: Totally agree with u.. The thing that irritates me is that they dont understand that they are already out of their "comfort zone" and they need to gel with the new surroundings!
@WA: Yay! Moov venumaa? ;)
@Prabhu: Thanks yaar! :)
@Sheks: Well, when have i not been one?? :D
@Vikram: Yeah!
@Sophia: Onnna rendaa!! Neraiya!
@Div:
I totally agree that we are not complete and that we do have our short-comings. The point in contention here isnt about who is better and who is not. It is about "adapting to the conditions"...
When in Bangalore, the Bangalorean is the boss and he lays the rules. It aint, and it should never be, the other way around!
@Div Contd..
Northies say that Chennai doesnt have a "night life", which in their definitions are pubs and discotheques. What needs to be understood is that the culture followed by Chennai doesnt have room for that, and it is that fact that needs to be respected and not ridiculed at.
Lets say, how would they feel if we start calling their night parties and booz parties as totally immoral?? Wont they feel bad? But, it is their style of life. But that style ends there. Asking for the same in Chennai is down right improper!
@Div Contd:
Who said that we cannot pronounce the name of our country properly?? It is Bha, and not ba as u said, but Tamilians never pronounce it as baratham, it is always Bharatham.
And yes, all south indians can pronounce tamilnadu properly!!!! Show me one person who cannot.
Well yes, we do differentiate. We have Bongs, Gujjus, Punjabis, Delhi-ites, north east guys and what not!!! We dont call the entire population of north india as Sardarjis, do we??
lets hope for the best happenings in blore..not only in blore but in all places.
haha.. we shall hav a debate online..
@Div, Contd: The bottom line is this..
When a southie travels to the north, he takes the pains to learn the language to communicate. Why is it that the same doesnt hold good when a northie comes to the south??
And lets not even get into this Hindi is our national Language crap!! India, before integration, had clearly demarkated boundaries and hindi was NEVER a language of the Dravidian region. The only reason why hindi was practiced (later on) here was for Commerce and nothing more than that!!! This concept of a national language can hold good in nations like France or Germany, where there is only one language, but calling a language a national language in a country as diverse as ours with so many different languages is such a HUGE mistake!!! The right thing for the consitution to do is to call all languages as "regional" languages and be done with it!!
@vikram: well as far as i know.. in present india,no state has problem with the national language except TN.
there is only gain in learning a language(hindi) ... when we can accept english.. i dont see any difficulty in accepting hindi as our national lang..
@Div: U are getting me wrong again.. I am totally FOR learning Hindi and my understanding of Hindi is pretty fine now. English is an "official language" in India. It isnt a "national language" in the same context as in what hindi is being referred to.
U are from Andhra. Go to the small towns of Andhra. How much Hindi do u think they speak?? Go to Karnataka? Except Blore and Mysore, how much Hindi is spoken there?
What abt Mallu Land? U have been there, right?
Again. Learning Hindi. Great.
Speaking Hindi. Great.
Attitude. Not Great!!
o my god...ROTFL....can I copy paste and forward it to all my eclectic north indian friends plzzzzzzzzzz
@ursjina: be my guest :)
'Mathlab', 'phirbe' are certain common things used along with english by some ppl...When they very well know that I don't know Hindi, I still wonder to whom they speak to in Hindi when only 2 of us are there....
@vikram:i hav answers to ur questions ..
well as u said i will read ur post again..
Whoosh
kalakkals!!!! This needs to be printed as big posters and put up in ad agencies.. thats where these big pains asking silly questions like "malayalam and tameeeel are same na?" exist. grrrrrrrrr... i work in the advertising industry as a freelancer, so i dont have the guts to slap that dumb idiot (most often an idioteee in kuttai skirt anorexic nut case) who asks such questions (vela poidumeeengra bayam daan vera enna?).
@Maghesh: Glad to know that u have suffered too ;)
@Div: Am waiting for ur post!
@inippu: welcome here boss!! And yeah, seriously, if tamil and mallu are the same, why the hell do they have different names?? Crazy or what?
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enaku avlo sirippu varudhu da :)
supera nachunu potte po :)
can't agree more to this. :-)
Oh come on, how many of 'you' chennai-ites talk in English to a non-tamilian. English vandhalum, they reply back in tamil and make the person feel outta place. I've heard so many experiences from my Northie friends who've had to take a connecting train from Chennai, and have had miserable experiences, thanks to the Xenophobic Chennaities!!!
Its high time we accept the fact that Hindi is out national language. It doesnt hurt to learn it!!!!
machi ..nalla damage da ....i hav heard these ppl say tht chennai ppl are not friendly bcos chennaites dont speak hindi ..come dudes , do we complain abt mumbai or delhi saying they dont apeak tamil,kannada ...?
@ibh: :D bayangara sirikureenga pola!! :D
@jithu: welcome to the club! :)
@Preetha: "English vandhaalum tamil-la pesuvaanga".. Tell me seriously, have u personally experienced this? Even if that happens, that would probably happen within TN and not in Delhi...
see, my problem is not with hindi at all. I am totally in favor of learning hindi and it is a great language. What i am pissed off is with the attitude of "SOME" north indian people here in Bangalore.
I have some great north indian friends that i have made in IIIT and they seriously dont exhibit the traits that i have mentioned here. But there are certain others at my college who do. And this is about them!
@Prasanna: :D
@Jagan: Exactly!!
sooper post..:)
most of the Hindi speaking population would be quick to point out the heavy tamil accent in our Hindi... but what the heck, I atleast made an attempt to speak ur language, when you dint care a damn!
not only about chennai not having a night life, even about chennai not serving the best of rotis...!!! Grrrr! Cant they even make an attempt at finding out what an idli or dosa tastes like?!
That was really funny! Good one Vikkki.
LOL @ "Kyun Ki" and "Mathlab Ki" or any other Godrej Key should not find itself in a proper English sentence.
Strong blog maams
But u'd be surprised at the # Tamizh chaps speaking Hindi in hyd .. even i was amazed .. but there can be no solution to lang/caste/sex problems ( ahem had to include sex here :-P )
@nithya akka: give me idly and dosai-s any day!! but we know how chappathis taste like too, na!! :) thats the difference.. well pointed out!
@DV: :D
@arvind: well, u had to bring sex into my U rated blog :p
@dumbs: well, i'll do it from this side.. let them do it from their's.. why stop? it is interesting na? :D
Great post. I am in total agreement with you.
We should practice what we do in programming too where it is a norm for local variables to take priority over global ones. Same should apply in life too.
BTW, to avoid unscruplous comments by some systems worlwide add the check provided by blogspot.
@Vivek:
Hai Boss. Been a long time since I heard from u.. Howz life? Kalyaanam aacha?? ;)
And yeah, I had the word verification thing on for sometime. But I found it to be a pain in the ass. And also, the spam comments seem to be on a decline currently. So, when it comes back, i think I'll bring it on. :)
LOL! am so happy to see signs of good old Vikkki again.. almost fell off my chair reading this one!!
A..M..A..Z..I..N..G post Whoosh..!!
I thoroughly enjoyed it..
you have just reflected what we all are going through in Bangalore and Hyderabad..!!
And, the condition of North east guys getting humiliated all over india as "Chinese"... ridiculuous world..!!
Great going..!!
--Satheesh
http://educatethechildren.blogspot.com
http://marakka-mudiyavillai.blogspot.com
A..M..A..Z..I..N..G post Whoosh..!!
I thoroughly enjoyed it..
you have just reflected what we all are going through in Bangalore and Hyderabad..!!
And, the condition of North east guys getting humiliated all over india as "Chinese"... ridiculuous world..!!
Great going..!!
--Satheesh
http://educatethechildren.blogspot.com
http://marakka-mudiyavillai.blogspot.com
really funny.... good one too...;)
@chik: enna pa... did i lose it inbetween or what?? :D
@chaos and order: thanks bud.. the fact of the matter is, this is a minor degree of "suppression" from N.India. Just like the US suppression on India.. dont u think? It is just the "I am better than u" and "I am right and U are wrong" ideology
@Adarsh : :)
@Sunil,
Well, I am sure u wouldnt have gone through the comments above cause I have repeatedly stated my exact intentions of the post there. Reading ur comment, I can only summarize that u havent understood the context of my argument.. Some clarifications are in order here.
"you say all south indian languages are not same but still chat and write in tamil".. When I am in the company of a co-tamilian I would tend to speak in the language we are both comfortable in. If there is a third person in the midst, without finding out whether the other person understands the language, we WOULD NOT speak in tamil. This is not the case with Hindiwalahs. Why is there an assumption that ALL people SHOULD know hindi?? This is the thing that I dont quite understand.
"and come on who many of south indians know a different south indian language other than their mother tongue.."-- Let me talk for me and my buddies as I cannot generalize. I personally know Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. I can understand Malayalam to an extent. I learnt all the languages (except tamil, which is my mother tongue) purely out of interest. Most of my friends out here are multilingual too.. So, I am afraid this argument of urs doesnt hold in my blog!
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