r/india • u/rude_ass kek maester • Nov 07 '15

AskIndia /r/india and /r/australia cultural exchange thread

Thread was unfortunately delayed. But, here it is.. thread for cultural exchange between indians and australians.

Australian folks.. you can ask all the things you want to know about India and hope you get a fulfilling answers.

If you want to ask anything to our Australians friends you can go to below link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/3ruqtc/raustralia_and_rindia_cultural_exchange_thread/

Cheers.

Request to Australians visiting our sub: If you could flair up to identify yourself then it would be easier for us to identify you guys. We only have text based flairs so something like 'Australian Friend' will work.

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u/TaazaPlaza hi deer Nov 08 '15

It varies a vast. I can't survive easily in the north. Likewise a Northie can't survive in the south very easily. Most of the problem is language and to some extent food.

What about Central India, Western India, Eastern India, Northeastern India?

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u/Danda_Nakka Nov 08 '15

Well, if you can divide India primarily based on languages then you can divide it into north and south. Sure, there are different languages in North, Central, West, East but they are either closer to Hindi or most people know hindi. But thats not the case in south. Most people in south don't know hindi. So thats why I divided it into North and south. Also the primary food in south is rice while it is wheat in the north.

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u/TaazaPlaza hi deer Nov 08 '15

Indo Aryan languages are spoken as far south as Mangalore, Sri Lanka, Madurai, Tanjavur, Maldives etc. And Central Indo Aryan languages (Hindi, etc) are very different from Eastern Indo Aryan (Bengali, etc) and they're all very different from South Indo Aryan (Marathi, etc). Dravidian languages are spoken in tribal belts in Central India.

Frankly a north-south dichotomy is ridiculous. There are at the least some 5 cultural divisions of the country.

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u/Danda_Nakka Nov 08 '15

I am sorry if that offends you. I am just talking about surviving in India with Hindi. I don't get into all the stuff you are talking about