North Indians vs South Indians

Foremost, India is the land of Dravidians and Aryans before we get into its religious history. Any organization/company/corporate we go to, there is always an element of differentiation. Why exactly is this divide? He is a South Indian, she is a North Indian. Oh! he eats rice only, She can't live without a roti.

The South Indians:  A descent of the ancient Dravidians. The most Dravidian speakers today are the Telugus, Tamils, Kannadigas, Malayalis, Tulus and Gonds. In a nutshell South Indians are generally academic driven, discplined, humble, pious, sublte natured people. Being a disciplined academician the South Indians do not always question a thought/belief/opinion. Their instinctual is to go by the rule of the thumb. A South Indian would thrive to memorize a multiplication table (less formally a times table) upto 20*20. South Indians take pride in memorizing. Hence, their natural instinct is trained towards being more analytical rather than contradiction.

Some of the famous South Indians are :

• C.V. Raman (Mathematician)
• Srinivasa Ramanujam (Mathematician)
• Abdul Kalam (Scientist, Former-President)
• P.V.Narasimha Rao (Former Prime Minister)
• A.R.Rahman (Musician)

In this era of Information Age, where most of the youth's jobs are focused around Information Technology. On a casual tea/cigarette break from work a bunch of youth debate or get lost in the thought, "Why Southies don't occupy Management positions". South Indians are off Mathematician nature and hesitant to occupy positions which would involve them to walk away from Code/Solutions/Numbers.

Southies are often flocked on their pronounciation stress on the alphabets such as "Yum" for M, "Yen" for N, etc. The root reason behind this pronounciation stress is because of their mother tongue linguistics. In the languages such as Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, these alphabets are stressed. The Cosmo Dravidians are aware about this stress and have focused to neutralize it.

Most flocked/rumored South Indian tales, that they are -

• Less fashionable
• Long named (such as Venkata Raghava Srinivasa Narasimha that would translate into V.R.S Narasimha, Villupuram Chinnaih Pillai Ganesan (Sivaji Ganesan) ). Sticking your neck out a name like this would hint at the persons place of origin and ancestral line. In order to make these long names "India Neutral", South celebs would monogram their pedigree like names into NTR, MGR, CBN, YSR, ANR etc.
• Eat with their hands all the time. South Indians love to liquidate their morsel of rice with Curry, Sambar, Dhal, Yogurt, etc.
• Do not mix with anyone else. A Malayalee would swim through rivers to find another Malayalee to share a fish, a Telugu would crush through red-chillies to find another Telugu for sharing his pickle, A Tamil would grind through beans to find another Tamil for coffee-chat, A Kannadiga would crush through grains to find company of another Kannadiga over a box of Raagi balls.  

The 1970s, 80s - Back in the 70s, 80s during the massive national migration based on demand for jobs, a lot of South Indians moved into metropolitan cities. Occupying positions of  respectable skills such as Accountants, Engineers, Foreman etc.  This gave the North an exposure of the South culture for the first time.

It was forbidden to marry a Tamil Iyer/Iyengar since they would not eat in someone else's plate and drink out of someone else's glass. The movie, "Ek Dujhe Ke Liye" broke these boundaries and encouraged the then youth to think sensibly. In Mumbai, Dadar (A South Indian occupied suburb of then Bombay),  South Indian boys would mingle with the Marathis, Punjabis, etc in the summer holidays. The Marathis, North Indian boys would be offered South Indian delicacies such as Idli, Sambar, Vada, etc at their friends home. These chronicles brought the North Indian parents and South Indian parents together for the first time and understand each others culture.

The North Indians:
Descendants of the ancient regions of Panchala, Kuru, Kosala, Sindhu, Banas. People of Indo-Iranian languages. In Indians the Aryans or the North Indians are those sect of people who speak Punjabi, Assamese, Gujurati, Sindhi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Bengali, Oriya, UP, Bihari, etc.  Typically, North Indians are less-dad fearing and mom-fearing while growing up. It reverses once over post-youth. The South Indians are typically dad-fearing, get a slap back in the face for every punchline towards their parents. The North Indians mostly have a contradictorial approach towards a theory.This mostly comes from their business background. In order to trade successfully, you need to question.

Some of the famous North Indian Entrepreneurs are :

• The Ambanis, The Tatas, The Birlas, etc
• Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail)
• Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems)
• Amar Bose (Bose Consumer Electronics)
• Gaurav Dhillon (Informatica)

Stereotypical - North Indians look down upon South Indians because of their darker skin. A fair skinned South Indian is usually questioned in surprise, "What you are South Indian, you are so fair?".   South Indians look down upon North Indians because of their less-academic background. North Indians are mostly wheat-eaters, believe that every Indian should speak Hindi, typical risk-taking, non-law abiding youth (unlike the South Indians), mong for a jazzy lifestyle, cosmo-fashion lovers, chooses the business/Armed forces as a livelyhood.

Typically, North Indians have a flair for business and easily occupy good management positions later in their careers. In the Information Age, most of the Management Consultant, Sr. Manager, Associate Partner, Director jobs are easily occupied by the North Indians. A South Indian believes that it requires some good technical experience to satisfy the needs of those job profiles. This theory exists since the North Indian is adept in making the business run successfully and the South Indian restricts himself to his technical domain.

Most flocked/rumored North Indian tales, that they are -

• Fair skinned. Not mostly at all! The Biharis, Bengalis, UPites,Gujaratis  are pre-dominantly brown or dark.
• Do not take regular showers.
• Thinks it is fashionable to speak English to impress a South Indian
• Always rythmic in words such as Pizza/Vizza, Picture/Victure, Khanna/Vanna, Chai/Vai, Shaadi/Vaadi, Teri/Meri.
• Chews Paan/Tobacco and spits red slush all over the walls.
• Addresses all South Indians as a "Madrasi".
• Uses words/phrases such as "Sirji" to his seniors, "God willing" for the phrase 'touch-wood', "By God" for the phrase 'I swear'.

No matter which nation you go, humans always try to find differences not just between different countries but also their own people based on - north, south, stereotypes, culture, festivals, names, etc.

Why the Tamilians don't like to speak in Hindi, Tamils Chapter2

Is that a problem? I'm not a Tamilian but I would like to understand this mis-conception.

Looking at the geographical positioning of the state of Tamil Nadu(TN). TN lies deep south, the land down under. Hindi has penetrated into the states of Karnataka but not much beyond. We don't much hear people complaining that the auto-rickshaw driver in Cochi OR Trivandrum did not speak in Hindi.
This is an utter mis-conception and "rumor has it" subject to insensibly say, "They don't speak Hindi in Chennai".

Agree! that TN demonstrated the anti-Hindi riots in the 1960s. Hasn't the Andhra Pradesh(AP) government silently demonstrated the same when in the rule of N.T.Rama Rao he converted every government notice into Telugu literal? At that time, the AP State and local bus route display boards where converted into Telugu. There was no display of English or Hindi below it. Only small font sized Urdu! Never did they say, "AP is anti-Hindi". That was just a political vote bank agenda move. Most of the Telugus speak Hindi because of the Hyderabadi/Nizami connection. But beyond the Telangana region, you can barely hear an utter of Hindi in the state of AP. English is much spoken as a medium of communication with the tourists/visitors.

Remember! times have changed in the state of TN. An auto-rick driver may not converse back to you in Hindi. Not because, he hates Hindi but because he was barely educated or followed Hindi. Remember! he would atleast care to drop you at your destination. It is the mindset of the non-local to pick a fight with them if he doesn't respond back in Hindi and the anti-Hindi attitude the Tamils had earlier demonstrated. If you politely speak to an auto-rick driver in Chennai he doesn't care for more than the fare he could make.

A Chennai based college friend of mine was once travelling in a  local Bangalore bus. He was a little obese at that time and didn't have the flare to speak Hindi. When the driver braked the bus suddenly, he accidently fell on the bus conductor. In frustration, the conductor yelled out at him, "Kuthe ke bache". My friend was smart enough to lament back at the conductor in Hindi, "Bache ke Kuthe". That was the smartest Hindi punch line I ever heard. He was a Tamilian.

Around 790 million speak Hindi nationwide in India. There are bit more than 77 million Tamil speakers around the world. Hence, Tamil is a minority. Hindi is spoken in around 14 states in India. Who is to blame for NOT being able to emerge Hindi as a national language nationwide? Central or Local government?
The TN local High-School syllabus carries Hindi as a second/third language. It is the controversies that the TN based politicians stir that make the Tamil's sound as Anti-Hindi.

Stereotypical Tamils, Chapter 1

Q: How do they start a road race in Tamil Nadu?

A: Ready....Steady.....PO

Ever imagine? stuffing 20 tamils into a Maruti car? All they would do is speak about is either matinee king Rajnikanth or Vijaykanth. The Tamils are well-known worldwide for their unity. Go Singapore, South Africa, UK or Canada, the Tamil diaspora have the unity of spagetti noodles. A Tamil can't imagine starting a day without a slurp of coffee. America runs on Dunkin Donuts and Chickory coffee runs TN. They make no choice other than Madras coffee or Starbucks.
A group of 70 tamilians would intellectually discuss only about Tamil politics in the State. Be it on a fishing boat in the Indian ocean or an International flight to New York.
The tamils have an inclination towards flashy and gaudy colors which are very well depicted in Tamil movies. Superstars wear flashy shirts and boots in the urban drama OR gaudy lungis and a red color vest as a rural drama hero. The Tamil matinee fans are fanatic about one bullet split into two with a razor blade by a superstar that kills three villians.

Hyderabad Chapter 2 : Differences between the Telanganas and the Andhras

Following are the differences in the way each region's people behave, their stereo-type characteristics and how they think.

• If you stuff 20 Andhrites into a Maruti car, they'd still talk about property value and real estate. If you stuff 20 Hyderabadis into a Maruti car, they'd spread a carpet and start a "dawaat" right in there and invite all close-friends over.
• An Andhrite can never learn to cook a Chicken-biryani and a Telanganite will never cook a Chicken-Pulao.
• Soon after a Hyderabadi gets off a Scoda car they are known to pull-off a salaam. Well known, to touch their heart with their right hand after a handshake expressing absolute satisfaction in meeting that person.
• The Andhras are avid cinema followers. On a train from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Andhrites would talk only about Balakrishna's/Chiranjeevi's/Nagarjuna's/Venkatesh's upcoming film. Children are raised in a fanatic movie loving environment. Andhras pick their favorite movie star based on inclination towards a caste/community. They tend to die-hard for that one star and never change their favoritism.
• Kaleidoscopic! - Andhrites are known for having a lot of facial expressions based on their fanatism towards Tollywood. Andhrites flap their tounges out as an expression for unbelievable!, nod their neck left-right sideways in "speed" as an expression for dis-agreement.
  Teen-maar - The only time an out-pour of expressions occurs on Telanganites is when they dance in a baraath of a close friend's wedding.
• A Telanganite is all about "Dostulu"(friends), right from when his life begins. Everyday, when the kid comes back from gulley cricket he would tell his parents about the way he treated his friends and how they treated him. Telanganites are known to pick friends regardless of race, caste, religion. The Muslim and Hindu Telanganites are known to invite each other for festivals such as Dassera and Ramzans.
• Andhras love chappals. Given a choice between chappals and Nike sneakers. The Andhras would still pick chappals. The diaspora Andhra men during a cold winter are often found to slip their feet into chappals for a short walk to the grocery store.
• An Andhrite raised in Hyderabad stays away from culture medley due to parents opposition. The settler's parents are conservative in their up-raising due to facts unknown about letting their kids mix-up. The resisting first generation Andhra-Hyderabadi tries to secretly maintain a gang of friends unbiased.

Hyderabad Chapter 1 : Growing up as a Hyderabadi Potta

Hyderabadi pottas are humor-loving cafe' cultured boys in the youth times. A Hyderabadi potta wants to bring more humor to the table among his brotherhood, also a little conservative in his crush-approach.

The South being stern in their kid raising approach, Hyderabadi boys are dad-fearing, keep-mum attitude when it comes to mischeaf busted situations at home.

When it comes to tu-tu-main-main brawl situations. A Hyderabadi potta(HP) may not strike right back when he gets a black-eye. Rather a HP would strike back the next day with his boy-gang in front of the opponents house. Hours of consultations are mostly held with gang members at local cafe's slurping through numerous cups of chai. The blackeyed potta usually covers up the costs for the chai and samosas. HPs are more emotional and never forget their buddies from school/college.

A Hyderabadi potta takes a secluded approach, he wouldnt' introduce his friends much to his family members rather would care to meet them not more than the front of the house-gate.