(02-19-2023, 04:09 PM)stillwill Wrote:(02-19-2023, 03:35 PM)stillwill Wrote: I've said that here many times, but congress and BJP both tie up during Indian General election and the seats from TN is what BJP really want. They have started BJP regional party in Tamil Nadu which is actually a joke. The spread anti-muslim and Christian sentiments which doesn't work in TN because as you said Christian and Muslims all speak Tamil and Islam came through peace in TN and Christianity came to rescue poor people from caste-ism. Most people speak English and you don't see Tamils, Malayalees or Telugus going to North India if anything it is them that are coming down to Chennai and Bangalore to work so if anything it should be other way around. Tamil people in India have never cared about anything else just like North Indians never cared about anything down south. I mean 100s of fishermen in TN got killed by SL navy and few thousands wounded and Indian governments are happy to turn a blind eye because they aren't North Indians. North Indian media does a good job on isolation South Indians by saying words like "Tamil sentiment" or "Tamil Fishermen". Why not say "Indian fishermen? ". My sister-in law is from Tamil Nadu and she feels distant to North India.
Actually it is not language. It is more of culture, tradition, music, dance, arts, history and literature. It is hard to deviate of that. For example certain songs you only start understanding once you are like 25+ because you need 25+ years of linguistic experience and literature to understand them. It sounds a bit dumb because it is hard to explain. English is significantly weaker language so I can't give any examples and I don't speak any other languages to compare it with either.
You are right, the north & south don't give a damn about each other. But the northies now have boycotted Hindi movies for South movies because they promote hindu culture more than what bollywood movies do.
I come from land of Sachin, just like you posted people from north come to the metro cities in search of jobs & don't care for local culture & start implying their culture here which has caused lot of anguish here in the west as well as in the south.
But I don't see BJP or the Congress getting votes in TN in near future, ppl vote alternately for DMK or AIDMK. I have many Tamil friends who don't like ppl from their hometown in TN not learning the hindi language,the locals from TN fear learning hindi would be the end for Tamil language & culture.