Who? Where? Why? SRGMP *Read if you have posted* - Page 9

Originally posted by: Summer3

Well I post a pic that I like to see and keep changing it too.

This Avi by the end of the week will be changed as well.

But my profile clearly states my gender so that there is no complication.

Formely I used a pic of a cat, but no one thought I was a cat either.😆

Originally posted by: shabari

thanks Guru, King......yes indeed King has hit the nail....i am so glad to know that you have so much knowledge of this little known dialect..otherwise thanks to hindi cinema we were all categorised under one term Madarasi 😕......and yes.....abu dhabi is the capital city of United Arab Emirates......It's a smaller city than dubai which is a more famous and known city globally.abu dhabi is where the oil you can say literally comes from....compared to dubai which depends lot on business,trading.

woowww....nice topic...

Originally posted by: akanna

Tell me about the term madrassi! I have been approached by old Indian ladies a few times asking me if I am Punjabi!! When I say no I am from the South, then they make this face and make the remark, 'oh so you are a madrassi!' I never understood why during my initial days outside India, but now I know...

madrasi basically means a person from madras aka chennai. so a tamilian. normally any person from south india is branded as tamilian 😡.

*king*

Originally posted by: oldblackjoe

WHO?

My name is mr. sen..

I am a Male

Currently a student at veivekananda college

i love rafi saab's voice, wwe, dragonball z, pokemon, dean koontz,darren shan, sufring india forums, playing hitman bloodmoney etc

WHERE?

live in chennai.

WHY am I on SRGMP forum?

simply. i dont like silly overrated singers like debojit, toshi, amit tandon, sumitra, priyani, harpreet, vasundhara, areeb , jayant, harshit,

rohanpreet etc so i originally came here to bash such mediocroties.

anyway i later enjoyed poting polls and topics and made many great friends.

thanks for the intoduction Mr. Sen. But i never knew pokemon and dragonballz and all other cartoons things were that famous in India? wow that's a long list of singers whom you dont like!

Originally posted by: akanna

Tell me about the term madrassi! I have been approached by old Indian ladies a few times asking me if I am Punjabi!! When I say no I am from the South, then they make this face and make the remark, 'oh so you are a madrassi!' I never understood why during my initial days outside India, but now I know...

ye i since i am from punjab, most people in Punjab call people from the south madrasi, or tamil. at first i thought that all of south India speaks tamil, until i found out from my friends, i had no idea. what do they speak in kerala, does anybody know. i only have knoeledge about north India, another area that i have know knoeledge about is north east India. all the small states, i don't even know their names, i never knew their was a state called Mizoram until th recent elections happened there.

Originally posted by: gursharan

ye i since i am from punjab, most people in Punjab call people from the south madrasi, or tamil. at first i thought that all of south India speaks tamil, until i found out from my friends, i had no idea. what do they speak in kerala, does anybody know. i only have knoeledge about north India, another area that i have know knoeledge about is north east India. all the small states, i don't even know their names, i never knew their was a state called Mizoram until th recent elections happened there.

Calling people from four different southern states in India with the tag "Madrasi" is an ignorance on people's part...

Originally posted by: akanna

They speak Malayalam in Kerala. Maybe I shouldnt be answering your question - hmm, it looks like you have forgotten to welcome me unlike all others who have answered for the topic - just a reminder. 😉

No, those people who addressed me as a madrassi were not Punjabis, but from Delhi or somewhere around that area. Okay in South, each state has their own language and there is no common language like the Northern states where Hindi is like a common language for all. Malayalam is the language in Kerala (where Trivandrum and Kochi are), Tamil in Tamilnadu (where Madras aka Chennai is), Kannada in Karnataka (where Bangalore is), and Telugu in Andhra Pradesh (where Hyderabad is). Got it? 😃

Sorry akanna ji, i did forget to give you my thanks. SO here is a special one from me!



Thanks for the information, it becomes confusing when INDIA suddenly makes new states out of old ones and and changes the names of the cities. I seriously though that Chennai and Madras were differnet places, until the IPL started!

Originally posted by: Dabulls23

I could figure "Akanna" had to be from one of the southern states...😃