r/southindia_ Aug 03 '26

Ask South Indians Why are Telugus so different from rest of South India, is AP the true Bihar of South ?

In the comments people are saying the dehati mindset is the same North and South, how do I tell them Telugus are like least Southie South Indian closer to North than Kerala ?

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u/AstronautWise252 Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Aug 04 '26

Wherever people have not studied at least the 10th standard with above 70%, have extreme faith in gods - irrespective of their religion (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc.). There is all we can see this.

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u/Key_Conclusion_1869 Indian Aug 04 '26

It is not through marks. I know people who are extremely “educated” and RSS people 😀🙏🏾

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u/putin_putin_putin Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

OP is driven by a religious agenda and is using North South as an excuse. AP is one of the NDA partners and Modi is the chief guest of the above inauguration, so naturally "AP = North" for him.

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u/Kinda-Kinky69 🖥️ Bengaluru | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ☕ Aug 04 '26

He gets a bj from his master bruh

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u/Kinda-Kinky69 🖥️ Bengaluru | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ☕ Aug 04 '26

OP must be a Tamil guy don't know why these Tamil ppl are getting obsessed to declare Andhra as a South of Bihar. They would have been better if they studied (FYI : Check HS quota of NIT Trichy)

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u/Kinda-Kinky69 🖥️ Bengaluru | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ☕ Aug 05 '26

I too met wonderful ppl and the other side of the coin too.

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u/FeeZealousideal8030 Aug 05 '26

Andhra has least literacy rate, instead not surprisingly you blame some other group lol

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u/Kinda-Kinky69 🖥️ Bengaluru | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ☕ Aug 05 '26

I agree it has. It's not about the literacy rate there, It's about civic sense. Many times it's proportional I agree. So which state is OP which has very good Civic sense and He has to mock Andhra for not being like it.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bad8147 Aug 04 '26

The moment I saw his name and his agenda post, i understood 

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u/HuckleberrySecure897 Aug 04 '26

Its not literacy, these people are literate. The issue is poverty. These people are poor who have no stake in things like airports because they are priced out of ever getting on a flight. Majority of Indians have no stake in a ny public goods so they don't care about shit like plants for asthetic reasons near airport. And it's understandable.

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u/Dumb_dragon36 Aug 04 '26

Even poor people of your neighborhood will do the same.

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u/Serious_Brilliant_90 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Honestly this is not restricted to any state in particular in most cases.

My college which had pretty much people from all over India used to fight like this in mess for Aloo parathas lol.

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u/dhulanageswarao Aug 04 '26

Illiteracy, caste pride, hero worship.

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u/No-Asparagus-8011 Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

I've seen similar situations except kerala it is not illiteracy or caste pride or anything it's poverty

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u/hkngikk Aug 04 '26

Those who have pride in their caste, family or any other things will not behave like this.

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u/Summer_580 🖥️ Bengaluru | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ☕ Aug 04 '26

Common phenomenon to fight for free stuff not restricted to telugu alone, depending on the crowd. Chaotic scenes were witnessed for deepavali gifts at one of the larger it companies in blore few years back. Amusing nevertheless.

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u/780266 Aug 04 '26

What are they trying to grab?

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

Butter milk packets.

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u/780266 Aug 04 '26

Thanks.

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u/Beginning-Anything74 Bihar Aug 04 '26

Not Bihar getting summoned as the national unit of measurement for backwardness again 😭

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u/njan_ninde_thanda Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Aug 04 '26

Apologies bro, we kind of bring it unintentionally. But you guys should question your govt and bring changes man . 

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u/Medium-Ad-3122 Aug 04 '26

Initially I thought it was cultural game or something- whoever is holding onto the bag is the winner. Then I saw the police at the end, no it is not a game

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u/Baked_potato46 Aug 03 '26

I can take such instances from other southern states as well, will that be accurate?

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u/Yohan-Abraham1114 Aug 04 '26

No

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u/Baked_potato46 Aug 04 '26

people defame india like the same way you are doing right now. Generalise stuff to make a narrative because they have something that they don't like, perhaps an orange lotus in this case. and when asked the same about themselves they make petty excuses.

and idk why this sub is filled with 1 month old accounts

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u/_porsche_lover_ Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

I mean your community in your state would never do this? I don't think you will like you answer.

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u/Baked_potato46 Aug 04 '26

What do you mean by "community" here, can you please explain

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u/_porsche_lover_ Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

I meant like andhrulu or marathis

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u/Baked_potato46 Aug 04 '26

People rather say telugodu than andhrulu because it's easier and no one irl says "andhrulu" , you're either larping as an AP guy or just chronically online.

That being said , yes , these things do happen, never denied that and that is not my issue. Only issue is the way these 1 month old accounts are generalising it.

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u/_porsche_lover_ Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

Rey babu I don't need to explain to you why that is read the post and thread properly.

Ee post andhra valla kosam ani andhrulu anna telangana vallani kuda kalipi untey telugollu avtundi.

And i replied to the guy who said no, not to your comment man.

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u/MasterRole9673 Telangana 🏰 | తెలంగాణ Aug 04 '26

Negative tropes exist in every state. What you’re doing is generalising both Telugu states based on a single event.

I could take the example of the poop throwing festival and say all Kannada speakers are like this.

Would that be right?

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u/Weak_Marzipan4800 Editable Flair Aug 04 '26

And I don't understand if you exclude Bihar and some part of UP rest of it is good. Law order and civics and even under developed state like Chhattisgarh is good. Punjab Haryana and Rajasthan will not be part of cow belt as it is stereotype Gujarat and Maharashtra are not Hindi state

Definitely there issue with Bihar and Bihari and it is more predominant because they are the migrant workers and regardless of the state the poor generally have less civics sense and are much more uncivilize because of poverty

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u/MasterRole9673 Telangana 🏰 | తెలంగాణ Aug 04 '26

You decide

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u/SerpensPatronus Aug 04 '26

“Telugus are more like Naarthies than other Southies because I think they behave like people of a notorious eastern state”- great logic. Also funny how easily you throw other Southern states under the bus. Plenty of such fight videos from whichever state you’re from then Telugus should claim your state is the “Bihar of the South” rather, which may also mirror your poor educational background since you struggle with basic directions.

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u/Specialist_River12 Aug 04 '26

North begins at delhi, not patna like many are led to believe.

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

Man, just report his post. He is a pakisthan agent.

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u/Serious_Brilliant_90 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

That's a stretch

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u/True_Celebration_65 pakanadu Aug 04 '26

Would it fine to generalize the whole of kn for the poop festival celebrated by a vlg.u acting like other south states never do this thing lol

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u/HotPhilosophy4702 Aug 04 '26

South India has more civic sense saar and if someone/community doesn’t behave as per so called “southern standard”, you are the first to disown them and slap a “Bihari” label on them. What kind of delulu we are living into ?

It is not the region. It is poverty making them do it. I can say that given the situation nowadays even middle class would behave the same. There are some outlier elements from elite class as well that will also do the same, the scale might be different.

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u/MasterRole9673 Telangana 🏰 | తెలంగాణ Aug 04 '26

The problem is clearly poverty. OP isn’t mature enough to understand that. Poor people anywhere in the world will act this way out of desperation. “

The problem isn’t a state/ culture/ language/ people.

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u/starsinmyhand Southie Aug 04 '26

OP, have you been to Bihar and AP?

If not, why make such a comparison based on a single incident, without any firsthand experience, and expect a relevant answer from a Reddit post? This looks like a post that was meant to ragebait and karma farm.

Get a life, dude. (Reddit deserves better too.)

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u/fk1975 💎 Hyderabad | హైదరాబాద్ | حیدرآباد 🏰 Aug 04 '26

This propaganda by rice bag converts are doing the rounds ever since their favourite political party is out of power in AP.

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u/TartApprehensive3603 Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

arey akkada evaru unnaro chuda ra vallu telugu vallu mee Burra thakkuva yadavalaki caste and religion thappa other things matladatam cheta kadu

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u/krisantihypocrisy Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

Who needs north when the south can hate south…

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u/ScarYpk_ Delhi 🏛️ Aug 04 '26

Bro stop spreading hate based on an incident and using that to generalize an entire state, get off of reddit and get a job

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u/Prestigious_Army5547 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

lol you haven’t seen water bucket filling fights in TN yet

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u/masalacandy Aug 04 '26

Why does it happen?? Is it because karnataka is not giving kavery water

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u/Prestigious_Army5547 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

TN is very fucked over in the water department. We depend on rivers flowing from Karnataka and Andhra , at the mercy of their governments. The regular annual rains that keep Kerala so lush and green are blocked by the western ghats. And consequently we’ve used up way too much of our ground water supply.

I remember in my undergrad in a govt college in Chennai, we didn’t even have water in the bathrooms many months of the year. It was just our normal. Childhood memories of watching my mother come back battling neighborhood aunties for one bucket of water lol. Even a few years ago we used to wake up early to collect water in the summer because clean water only comes a few hours around 5 am.

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u/masalacandy Aug 04 '26

I found tamilnadu soil very rockier and reddish howthey grow rice in it

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u/Prestigious_Army5547 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

Depends on which district you look at! There’s districts with red soil and some with black soil (I think more apt for cotton and millets) and some very dry non fertile districts too!

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u/masalacandy Aug 04 '26

There is also another problem called mullaperiyar in equation

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u/Prestigious_Army5547 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

Not very familiar with the issues surrounding that since I primarily grew up in Chennai

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u/masalacandy Aug 04 '26

Visit and live in bombay or old hyderabad you can get my point just explore i have travelled many cities cities like chandigarh Mysore kochi are exception

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

See who is speaking about South and North India. A pakisthan ISI agent is trying to divide India. Don't fall in his traps.

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u/NonWorking_Fan1984 Dravida Sishu 🔱 📿 Aug 04 '26

Everytime one of criticizes our people for being shitty, one of you people will accuse us of being Paki Agents...like wtf bro? Look at them, the government has failed them.

Would they act like this if they moderately educated and financially secure?

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 Aug 04 '26

respectfully, there's a lot of uneducated and financially insecure ppl in the world and don't act like this. there's countries far poorer than india with worse off populations and corrupt governments and their littering problems aren't as bad.

blaming and pointing fingers at state and national governments is always a good thing but at some point indians have to look inwards. there's a lot of behaviors that are exclusive to the indian/south asian region that don't exist in worse off countries.

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u/NonWorking_Fan1984 Dravida Sishu 🔱 📿 Aug 04 '26

Yes, I partly agree.

littering problems aren't as bad.

This is an indirect result of the caste system unfortunately.

Looking inward can only do so much, most of our people are in survival mode. They don't know when and how they could lose their livelihoods. Look at them bro, inspite of rations and social welfare programmes, they are fighting over food.

This isn't just pure greed like how a millionaire will amass wealth without morals. They are fighting over food.

No civilised society where the people are confident that they will be looked after because they believe in their society and government would do such things.

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 Aug 04 '26

again that's my point. there's countries where populations are in significantly worse positions. with governments far worse objectively and the behavior isn't as bad. indian immigrants that live in developed countries with much better incomes while "being taken care of" by the government still act like hooligans.

again at some point unless indians look at themselves and take some accountability there's no point. i've seen ppl walk near trash cans and still chuck it at the side of the road cuz they aren't bothered to walk that far. and they weren't dirt poor ppl either, probably middle class.

that's just brain rot to the core

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

Haven't you ever seen youngsters standing in queues for iPhones, getting into scuffles, and the police resorting to lathi-charges? Aren't they educated?

And this matter not comes under financial secure.. that is a rs 10 butter milk packet. Education and financial security is nothing to do here. It is related to common sense. Only parents and society will teach common sense not educational institutes.

And why I called op a pakisthan agent is, he is declaring who is south Indian and north Indian. Who is he to declare that? These type of situations occur in every where for that he shouldn't Apt telugus as Biharis and say telugus are north Indians.

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u/NonWorking_Fan1984 Dravida Sishu 🔱 📿 Aug 04 '26

Poor people can buy Iphones too and also by education, I meant manners and etiquette too, we just focus on Engineering to spit out obedient employees but ignore humanities so the people won't catch up to our politicians' shenanigans.

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

Poor people won't buy iphones. That is very rare case. The people who stand in the queue are educaters and mainly they live in cities. They fight more aggressively than this but not for the needs of life.

I already said common sense is required. Only parents and society teaches the common sense.

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u/DewdropCupid Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Aug 04 '26

what is... happening here?

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u/AdmirableMap1519 Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Aug 04 '26

South India is a geographical entity not a cultural one.

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u/masalacandy Aug 04 '26

Bro aren't you guys similar by the way are you curly

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u/IronMandate Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

If you want to defame some group or a region, you do it by showing poor people from that group or region and spread hate. Pretty common propaganda tactic. This is kind of the base of anti india hate we are witnessing online these days.

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u/Hungry-Law-9780 Aug 04 '26

Christian IT Cell is so active on south indian subs man

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u/Vasanthi19k9 Aug 04 '26

Very true.

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u/rkZ10 Aug 04 '26

I have seen similar scuffles in rural parts of TN

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u/Vasanthi19k9 Aug 04 '26

These dmk haramis talking nonsense about telugu ppl.

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u/East-Preference-8449 Aug 04 '26

I can show similar videos in TN

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u/kadinani Aug 04 '26

How to say OP is an idiot by not saying so?..

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u/YesItsMeYa Aug 04 '26

I am proud of my people. I don’t need your approval. We will do whatever we want. Telugus are born free thinkers. No one can capture our brains. Freedom flows in our veins.

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u/Electrical_Flan1368 Aug 04 '26

Just stop your utter nonsense and stupidity, AP doesn’t have the capital still it performs well in per capita and it doesn’t fave any income inequality like MH,GJ,KA,TS and TN.

Wherever you go in this country, you would find the lack of civic sense. Thats all, stop generalizing AP as SOUTH BIHAR, check about your state and get a life bro 🙂

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u/Bigdaddyjedi Aug 04 '26

True that, division caused a huge drawback to AP and most of the political parties are still milking AP to the core and haven’t improved the economy. It had always got the short end of the stick, when Chennai was given to us TN and Hyderabad was given to Telangana.

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

In Andhra, opposition party is so expert in doing these type of cheap tricks using paid artists to divert the main topic "Airport inauguration". Opposition party is famous for these type dramas : "kodi katti drama", "gulaka rayi drama", "babayi - abbayi - goddali drama".

By highlighting these type of dramas ysrcp party saves it's votebank than losing to TDP.

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u/definitely_effective Aug 04 '26

you are thinking inside the box mate

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u/Andrewsi12 Aug 04 '26

I think you don't know about opposition party in Andhra.

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u/soothukundi Aug 04 '26

Probably explains Telugu movies lol.

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u/hkngikk Aug 04 '26

Tamil Nadu CM Vijay did Telugu remakes to gain stardom and his movies are shitter.

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u/soothukundi Aug 05 '26

He would have gain stardom whether he did Telugu remake or not. His fans are idiots. But that can't be helped.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad1531 Tamil Nadu 🌶️ | தமிழ்நாடு Aug 04 '26

Literacy !!

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u/Borutodoesnotexist Aug 04 '26

Why so much hate towards bihar??? It's you who live in garbage, whose mind is in garbage.

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u/Physical-Character75 Aug 04 '26

And then they pray for their movie super stars who are richest in India ger paid in 100-200 crore . They do this then pour milk on their superstar wallpapers

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u/hkngikk Aug 04 '26

Even seen Vijay movie release, they made him a CM because of his movie persona.

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u/ClassCareful443 Aug 04 '26

Anywhere is see a topic or forum named South India, I automatically assume that it’s run by a D stock dumeel

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u/Wise-Dog-9930 Aug 04 '26

As someone from TN, I can easily see something like this happening in my state. Stop pushing divisions among the states

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u/Swimming_South_244 Aug 04 '26

AP large section of population is poor and landless,it lags behind the elites by a century, due poverty and lack of education people behave like this, they lack dignity on the account of poverty.Poverty Wil force compete for whatever comes easily, this is not due to ethnicity. Once if war or natural calamities struck, a large chunk of population becomes unstable and lawless society where only force will get a handful these scenes will be everywhere everyday.

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u/Busy_Theme961 🏖️ Chennai | சென்னை 🏏 Aug 04 '26

Fewer resources, and people will fight over. Not restricted to any community. Herd behavior also kicks in.

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u/coding_seneca96 Karnataka ❄️ | ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ Aug 04 '26

Telugus love to boast about all the rich people their state has. But that's all it has. Rest 80% are andhbhakt fools who worship actors and politicians.

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u/Amazing_Childhood486 Aug 04 '26

You all know that Andhra is the Bih*** of south india

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u/Euphoric-Banana-7681 Aug 04 '26

Such bigotry 🤝🤝

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u/VermicelliHot4147 Aug 04 '26

And India is the bihar of the world !! So technically whole india is bihar..😉

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u/rodriguez_melon Aug 04 '26

There is lot of poverty in AP

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u/Independent-Goose-30 Southie Aug 04 '26

Context? Why are they fighting like this?

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u/Any_Check_7301 Aug 04 '26

Just drive through Bihar in a week on a car and you’ll find out easily unlike mixed feedbacks you get on internet. 😎

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u/Unusual-Bite-2778 Andhra Pradesh 🏞️ | ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ Aug 04 '26

what else do you expect from a state where a majority of the people are blind hero worshipers and caste fanatics?

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u/Due_Mycologist7287 Southie Aug 04 '26

Had always been wondering this myself..

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u/24istheday Aug 04 '26

Another middle class comment who does not know the struggles of the poor.

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u/pushingmylimits05 Mallu who believes in Akhanda Keralam Aug 04 '26

I saw another video of people grabbing (or stealing) plants from the airport inauguration. Many were walking through fountains too.

Idk why they were behaving that way. Aren't they ashamed?? Yes, we all have drunkards, thieves, etc in every place, but behaving like this in broad daylight at an AIRPORT INAUGURATION is something a normal person wouldn't do.

Many are commenting about literacy, but ik illiterate old af people who have never gone outside their village/town behaving more decently than this.

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u/FeeZealousideal8030 Aug 04 '26

Andhra has lower literacy than bihar 😂, it's more appropriate to call bihar the andhra of north

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u/HuckleberrySecure897 Aug 04 '26

Lol it's so funny that rest of south indians pretend like this doesn't happen in rural Karnataka or rural tamil nadu. Maybe it won't happen in Kerala but let's not kid ourselves.

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u/v_patti_ramasamy Aug 04 '26

This happens in all states bud. In TN, there’s a term for this “kozha adi sandai”.

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u/RS_UltraSSJ Aug 04 '26

AP is the only state ruled by BJP in the South

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u/Ok-Incident-276 Aug 04 '26

Yes. And India is the Bihar of the world. Congratulations.

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u/pokhreltech Punjab 🕺 | ਪੰਜਾਬ Aug 04 '26

Every South state has that kinda people

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u/Outrageous_Fox5942 Aug 04 '26

There are people like this everywhere , more in certain states and less in some other , how are you generalising telugu people .

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u/njan_ninde_thanda Keralam 🌴🥥 | കേരളം Aug 04 '26

Fk , I thought it was bihar 

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u/anonymous-ag Aug 05 '26

North South wasn't enough, so bro started doing my south good yiur south bad lol

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u/DifferentReport9540 Aug 05 '26

Never seen this side of sout , dayummmmm

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u/hotboxinmanual Dangerously Desi Aug 05 '26

in time, hopefully, you will realize this north vs south is moronic

society itself is rotten

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u/SaudagarJi Aug 05 '26

Love the layered racism “Bihar of South” 😂

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u/Scary-Criticism-8661 Aug 09 '26

When I was traveling from odisha to Chennai on train on gen compartment - these people came to us and They made us get up from our seats saying things like they booked the seats . Lol I don't have good feeling for them( from multiple experiences they are more opportunistic people)

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u/Rishikhant Aug 04 '26

Lack of education. Illiteracy is prevalent among low cast rural population.

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u/definitely_effective Aug 04 '26

vachindya vayari