Dear Rajeev, I appreciate your views and description of south India in particular with kerala and tamilnadu(may be because of your ethnicity).Its a pity you did not know about other part of south India.These consitute the states of Karnatake,Andhra and maharastra.These form the integral culture of south central and deccan areas.Its because of the sacrifices of the chalukyas,Rastrkutas,marattas,Kaktiyas,Reddys and Viajayanagar kings that the entire south was protected from the onslaught of Arabs.Its because of these people the rest of south flourished great.Please have a little more study and then generalise that as south India rather than pushing only two states. Sekhar
RE:south india with Maharashtra
by Ravikant on Nov 09, 2006 03:14 PM Permalink
Dear Rajiv, Your view of South India seems confined to only the 3 states of Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala but not Andhra Pradesh this is an aberration. All these 4 states have the Dravidian group of languages and share similar cultural ambience and food habits.
Maharashtra for reasons of history seems to stand differently from the other states although belonging to the peninsula of India.The Marathi language has the Devnagari script and is therefore seen to be a sister language of Hindi.
Ideally, Maharashtra should form a part of South India but is not perceived as such by the other states as a result the Marathi speaking people in the border areas of Karnataka have to put up the totally uncalled for tyranny of the state language. Ironically, the Kannada speaking people of Maharashtra do not face the same treatment.
There's a lesson for the Southern states to shed their linguistic chauvinism and integrate as one economic zone much like the unified Germany to produce a land mass of unequalled prosperity for all, a tolerant land where the soul of our Hindu personality resides undaunted.
RE:south india
by cv on Nov 12, 2006 10:17 AM Permalink
to Ravikant: absolutely propogonda against karnataka by linguistic chuvanists of shiv sena. why kannada aid to schools in MH is espc. in mumbai is being stopped? marathas are living with pride here in KA.
RE:south india
by Siddharth on Nov 11, 2006 11:47 AM Permalink
You forgot to add WB, Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Goa, to add to the list of states that are driving forward the economy!
