First of all, I'm a southie myself. Well, southie in a 'can speak my mother tongue' kinda way. Other than that single thread of southie-ism, I'm as lost down south as Jay is right now. In fact I'm considered an outcast by my cousins and south-indian friends, a MBCS - Mumbai Born Confused Southie :(
I may be confused, but I absolutely need to get a few things clarified and a few questions that need to be answered. So, here goes...
1. Where Exactly is South India?
Ask someone from Delhi and he would say - anything below Madhya Pradesh. To the extremities of my knowledge, South India is basically anything located below the state of Maharashtra. On this point, I think I have the correct answer.
2. Why don't people down south learn Hindi?
Hindi is the national language of India. We have a national language so that someone from Srinagar can talk to a person form Kannyakumari. How can you expect someone to communicate his price for 1.5 kgs of tomatoes in Tamil if his only idea of Tamil is 'andu gundu' ??
And talking of andu gundu....
3. Southie + Southie = high speed andu gundu. Why?
Take a room full of people who speak only english and hindi. Put two southies into the group and 2 minutes later all you can hear, in high speed is -
'cheppu cheppu' if they happen to be Telugu
'machhi yenna solray nee' if they are Tamilians
'magane yenu helta iddiyo' if they are from Karnataka
'Yenda Mone' if they are Keralites
When will they learn that the other 10 people in the room don't know a word of what they are talking? Tell them this and they will probably shoot you on the spot. It's not difficult not to talk in your native tongue when no one around you understands it. It makes the others uncomfortable and terribly pissed off. Talk in your native tongue...but not always!!!
4. Autorickshaws have a Meter built into them for a reason!
Instead of fighting with me for 20 minutes over 10 rupees, the stupid rickshaw driver can run by the meter, ferry 3 differnet passengers and make 5 times the money in the same time. When will the poor soouthie rickshaw drivers get this into their heads?
I'm sure all the true southies who read this post will be waiting to get their hands on me. I'm a southie too albeit a confused one...but I need answers It's high time someone cleared my doubts!
I may be confused, but I absolutely need to get a few things clarified and a few questions that need to be answered. So, here goes...
1. Where Exactly is South India?
Ask someone from Delhi and he would say - anything below Madhya Pradesh. To the extremities of my knowledge, South India is basically anything located below the state of Maharashtra. On this point, I think I have the correct answer.
2. Why don't people down south learn Hindi?
Hindi is the national language of India. We have a national language so that someone from Srinagar can talk to a person form Kannyakumari. How can you expect someone to communicate his price for 1.5 kgs of tomatoes in Tamil if his only idea of Tamil is 'andu gundu' ??
And talking of andu gundu....
3. Southie + Southie = high speed andu gundu. Why?
Take a room full of people who speak only english and hindi. Put two southies into the group and 2 minutes later all you can hear, in high speed is -
'cheppu cheppu' if they happen to be Telugu
'machhi yenna solray nee' if they are Tamilians
'magane yenu helta iddiyo' if they are from Karnataka
'Yenda Mone' if they are Keralites
When will they learn that the other 10 people in the room don't know a word of what they are talking? Tell them this and they will probably shoot you on the spot. It's not difficult not to talk in your native tongue when no one around you understands it. It makes the others uncomfortable and terribly pissed off. Talk in your native tongue...but not always!!!
4. Autorickshaws have a Meter built into them for a reason!
Instead of fighting with me for 20 minutes over 10 rupees, the stupid rickshaw driver can run by the meter, ferry 3 differnet passengers and make 5 times the money in the same time. When will the poor soouthie rickshaw drivers get this into their heads?
I'm sure all the true southies who read this post will be waiting to get their hands on me. I'm a southie too albeit a confused one...but I need answers It's high time someone cleared my doubts!
5 comments:
Putting your last point into business jargon, they do not know how to capitalize on volumes. I saw this arsehole auto driver waiting outside the ITC colony for the entire day. And when I had asked him in the afternoon to take me to some place for 20 bucks lesser than what he was asking (he asked for 150), he flatly refused.... And then he spent the entire day sleeping in his own vehicle. Its the height of being idiotic.
Mannn i couldn't have phrased it better...lol...though i ain't officially a "northie" according to the "below Madhya Pradesh" defn, I feel as outta place as u say u do....N i feel this even more as right now I'm in a house surrounded by relatives talkin Mallu faster than the speed of sound (or so it seems!!) n do I long to get outta here!! N they ain't ne better when my sis-in-law (who, bless her, is a Sindhi!) is around....Beat that!
Ohhhh n yes...I forgot what I wanted 2 say when I read ur entry....lol...I m glad I ain't alone in the "click-change-persona" crisis...Though that doesn't seem 2 make it any better!!
Hey Nice post mate.. Read my blog, a bit more uncivilized version is there;)
Maverick - You are just a silly dud who needs to live life a little more to get some perspective.
Paranoid Android - What are you trying to do? Fit in with this uptight bunch of zits, with the Fascist Mody and this Maverick Mussolini dude???
You cud do better please.
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