Last night, I visited my friend Sidharth. He recently visited Kerala, so was generally talking about the culinary delights from Kerala. He told me something which I will share with you here.
A chef in Kerala gave Sidharth his visiting card. The card had the usual details - name, occupation, address, and contact details. The address part was broken down into the exact address - the hotel name, the street... The state was Kerala - obviously. What about the country?
The country was S. India. When the chef was asked "What is S. India?", he replied - "Obviously South India".
Is there a country called S. India? Is it different from India? Is it not a part of India?
We Indians have not risen above petty things like - my state, my religion, my caste. We do not even have the courtesey to talk in a language understood by all when we are in a group. Very often I have seen two people talking in their mother-tounge in the presence of 10 others who do not undertsand the language being spoken.
I will repeat the oft-repeated sentence -unless we stop thinking in terms of state, religion, caste, and language, "इस देश का कुछ नही हो सकता".
Very sooon, I will upload the scanned image of the card.
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on the same lines why call ourselves indians and distinguish us from others...
btw howz the cold...
I second to you...and you are absolutely right.....I am in S.India[:)] and quite often find myself trying hard to understand the local language spoken by my frnds when in groups...so you see...its difficult that way....but still ahould we really say is desh ka kuch nahin ho sakta, so soon and so easily?
There is an unless in the sentence.
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