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East and West

When I was in Madras two weeks back, I was blemished by having to watch an Indhi movie. Then, my tirade against Bollywood must have become unbearable. I was instructed to be open-minded and all that.

Thamizh people who have lived in the North for a reasonable amount of time change in irreversible ways, several of them intimidating: hyperbolic praise for Mohammad Rafi, Thamizh conversations regularly punctuated by acha acha, etc. While a Northerner in Madras diligently complains about the heat, conservatism and the inability of the locals to speak Indhi?

The excessive tolerance of the Madras kaaran stems presumably from an inferiority complex and decades of Northern imperialism.

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9 Responses to “East and West”

  1. # Blogger Maha

    absolutely true!! nail on the head!!
    i think it is also because of the liberal media bias - you should see times of india - they treat madras as if it were some other country in another time.
    -m  

  2. # Blogger Ela

    adhu seri....aana appadi solli ittu irundaa inga milaga podi, masal saaman ellam kedaikaathae! intha somberi madras kaaranavuga vandu Europe lae kadai vachiruntha, thalai nimirinthu engalukku indhi vendam innu sollalam!hmmm...  

  3. # Blogger Sriram

    Equating semmangudi and Mohd. Rafi should be a capital offense. The only way you could redeem yourself now is by assuring us that the said hindi padam did not star aamir khan. Else you have betrayed the Tamil nation.  

  4. # Blogger I

    Maha: The Tamil nation needs its own news channel and news paper -- Sun TV and Dhinakaran.

    Ela: why, thamizhs don't have kadais there-a? adhuvum vada naatu sadhi dhan.

    Sriram: No, it was saif ali padam. adhu enna amir kaan padam?  

  5. # Blogger Sriram

    saif ali is ok. Infact everyone else in hindi filmdom is bearable but for this arrogant prick aamir khan. This hatred comes out of reading TOI supplements. rahul bose, aisoriya rai.. eppidi oru periya list ae irukku. idhellam unakku puriyadhu.  

  6. # Blogger Arun Sundar

    Super. Include a label called 'humour' :)  

  7. # Blogger Ela

    vada naatu sadi mattum illae....kudavae Pakistan infiltration num!  

  8. # Blogger Kumar

    Pakisthan Vada naadu ellam onnudaahan. Indhi urdu pakisthan bhai bhai  

  9. # Blogger Pipa

    South India-la Narthangai kidaikkum.
    Aaana, North India-la Southangai kidaikuma?!  

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