I come from Punjabi North India and I say that people of south India are blood of my blood and flesh of my flesh. When North was under constant attack from Muslims, it was South who preserved our Great Hindu Civilization. After 1947 when britisher left, majority of our diplomats and scientist came from south, else we would have been left far behind. As an Indian, I thank people of South India of holding out when their brothers in North were not in the best of the positions.