Malayalam is just 500 years child but tamil is pre-history language and it is classical lang. Don't compare Tamil with Malayalam. You can campare with Sanskrit,Hebrew,etc. but not with Malayalam. Tamil sanskrit=Malayalam. Kerala is 100% litracy state but Tamils are more enterpricing and Professional(Every year 110,000 engineers from TN). In middle east malayalee is just working under arab. But the Tamils are more businessmen than any southie there. Without natural resource Tamils are suppling all kinds of veg. livestock,etc to them. TN has 10 big cluster like textile (40%),leather(36%),fireworks(65%),printing,auto(38%),mechinery(30%),electrical motors and pumpset(55%),Livestock,electronic hardware,etc. Tiruppur almost Rs.13000 cr worth of textile garment exports every year. This small town is for a example every state to emulate.
