March 23, 2002

Why are South Indians so smart?

One of the least predicted phenomena of recent decades was the emergence of a huge number of people with brilliant technical skills in South India. As far as I know, nobody saw it coming. It doesn't fit either standard cultural theories (e.g., the "center" flourishes at the expense of the "periphery" - until recently, you couldn't get much more peripheral than Bangalore) or evolutionary theories (e.g., cold winters may select for high IQ, but South India is awfully warm).

A young Bangladeshi-American population geneticist named Razib Khan has done one of the few studies in this area, confirming via survey that professors of mathematics in India are disproportionately Southerners. Razib wrote to me:

"South Indians (from my experience) seem to have somewhat of an inferiority complex visa vis the north, especially the Hindi cow-belt. This is partly because of the north's cultural domination. But it's also because southerners are small and darker. If fact, I would hazard to guess that many northern fathers would object to their daughters marrying a southerner purely on racial grounds-backed up of course by traditional caste prejudices.

"This being said-pretty much everyone also agrees the southerners are damn smart. Smarter than the average northerner. Doesn't seem to matter though-the northerners are still higher on the pecking order anyhow. Kind of like High School. Jocks, not nerds, rule.

"By the way, I happen to think there probably isn't much evolutionary advantage in the ability to figure out higher level topology in mathematics. I have to think genetic drift is important in this sort of thing."

Genetic drift (i.e., randomness) might well be the answer, but it's kind of the Theory of Last Resort for when we can't come up with anything else. Of course, I sure haven't come up with anything else other than "maybe it has something to do with caste," which isn't exactly a theory. Does anybody have any other suggestions? What role does caste play in this? (My impression is that caste is essentially Jim Crow-style segregation taken to surrealistic extremes. Does that make sense?) 3/03/02


Why are there so many extremely smart people from the South of India? I mean, there's certainly nothing lacking about the big, fairer-skinned folks from the North of India, but the small, dark-skinned Dravidian-speakers from the South are something.

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subhasish chatterjee said...

from which region the historian like rc majumdar,rc dutta,pg marshall or current day's sugata bose or his cousin sharmila bose has come-is not the same region of bengal?can you provide a single name from south or north india who can match with those above mentioned.even in britain the number one historian is nirad c.chaudhuri's son kirti.n.chaudhuri who is also a bengali.now can you provide anyone from rest of india with so much international fame?

Anonymous said...

There was massive migration of Tamil Brahmins to Vanga Desha during the 12 century. The smartest Bengalis are Bengalis of Tamil thereby South Indian origin. So that again supports Steve's original point that South Indians are smart.

Subhasish Chatterjee said...

The above interpretation is certainly wrong.Since Tagore,J.C Bose ,Vivekananda,Satyajit Roy do not look like any tamilian or any south Indian.Do not make mockery here!!!-Bengali people are originated from mongoloid race and later they become mixed with aryan and finally with some dravidian race.Rabindranath Tagore's family went to bengal in 8th century from Konuj which is not from south India.Swami vivekananda was potrayed in Usa as 'the first ever oriental man to get famous in Usa'.

I am a Bengali but I don't look like any south Indian and neither my taste match with any south Indian people.But still I must admit that if there is any community of people I admire in Indian apart from bengali it's the tam brahmins for their quest on research in basic science.But that does not make whole south India an intelligent race.What about malayali,telgu or kannadiga people-they have not produced any single renowned scientist,mathematician,literary genius etc.So it's a damn real false assumption that dravidian people are smart.The Brits still give it to the Bengali although bengali people were instrumental for their demise in India.

Gotama Buddha said...

Invented, achieved, discovered, educated and of course $$$$ are 'measuring scales' of today.
India is a sum of many parts. The subsystems made of geographic parts are visible in the form of culture, race, rituals, language, diet, physical characteristics etc. Some of these subsystems are “smarter” than the others. But this does not make Indians “smarter” especially when you use ‘measuring scales’ of today.
Wisdom (not intelligence or smartness), contentment and a youthful mind are the true measuring scales of a "smart" human.
A geographic subsystem which is costal & temperate in climate provides the kind of nourishment that is conducive for development of a “smart” mind. This would make humans living is such subsystems “smarter”. India happens to have a few of them.

Anonymous said...

Bangalore is pretty cold, just saying... There's a joke that goes around here 'If you throw a stone up in Bangalore, it will either hit a dog or a Software Engineer' XD And not all South Indians hate North Indians, or the other way around =)
I don't know if the average South Indian is smarter than the average North Indian, but in general, I've noticed that South Indians are more academically oriented, pay more attention to education et al. In the North, working skills are given more importance.
Also, as much as I hate to admit it, most Indians are still pretty racist, and as you've stated, North Indians are 'higher' in the ladder (it has nothing to do with caste though).

Anonymous said...

Divided we fail,
United we win.

Even if we speak different languages and follow different customs,
Our hearts beat as one.


^i heard this in harry potter movie.
south or north doesnt matter. we both are indians. we are same.
and i think indians are very ambitious and determined. i think thats how they're succesful.

Anonymous said...

fuckoff you everyone .. what a bullshit discussion. don't you guys have time to discuss something better like how indian is growing. What steps need to be done to take care of child abusing, Politics, curruption etc .. What a shame. why you guys want to permote Steve Sailer blog. What he know about indians. Shame on you guys.. I AM PROUND TO BE INDIAN..

Anonymous said...

Listen, population of India is too high (thus, high competion) and people of India crave for high standard of living (mainly materialistic). So, they study hard.

Africans on the hard either don't care (are satisfied with their life) or they give up easily on studies. Nevertheless to mention they, unfortunately, lack basic necessities.

Any human race brought up in India (whether African, Caucasian etc ) will catch up the trend of studyimg hard. Same is with Chinese : the population factor and hope to achieve high in life via study.

Even Koreans and Israelis study hard, beacuse a trend has been set up. Unfortunately, people fail to get balance between life and study. Appreciate Art, music ,sports, travel etc. aprt from studeis if you can afford.

Subhasish Chatterjee said...

Recently a Bengali boy from Kolkata has solved 2 unique puzzles of Sir Issac Newton given 350 years ago.Sourya Roy,a 16 year old Bengali boy who migrated in Germany 4 years ago has recently solved the problem in Dresden,Germany.

SAMBIT said...

South Indian are smart-This blog is created by either a Paki or some South Indian.lol!in Britain they still differentiate Bengal(the smart group)and rest of India(deluded group with iq 81).Already Sampan and Subhasish has depicted that Bengal has produced best physicist,literary icon,Economist and movie maker from entire Asia.I will add one of top 10 statistician of all time Cr Rao from ISI,Calcutta.Even the most sophisticated test tube was made by Subhas Mukhopadhya of Bengal who died long ago before awarding the Nobel prize in 2010.From Rammohan Roy to Sourya Ray...it will continue to produce talents which rest of India will not be able to match in next 100 years...cheers!!Even Hillary Clinton knows about it and that's why she has congratulated only Bengali people of Usa(why not South Indian).

Anonymous said...

why the hell r u creating the difference between indians and their culture by still maintaining such blogs r u not satisfied with 300years ruling enslaving creating enimity amoung the indians.
plzzzz for god sake stop this shit we indians are enough with our problems that our enemies are posing on us.
so
plzzzz u understand ur also a citizen of a country think once being in the place of a true patriotic indian u will know it........
i hope u will stop this articles
every indian plays their role in building a legendry nation.
Its not the intelligence nor fair complexion or strength that is more important it is for what ur living to give ur nation that u can give with real heart of dedication for every indian as a indian being a indian and living as indian.....

Anonymous said...

I want to know who posts all these ignorant comments about there being a mutual hatred/contempt between north Indians and south Indians.

If any one of these people had actually been well-traveled, they would have known that in today's world, this difference is not even recognised, let alone acknowledged in everyday life. There may be differences between the north and south, but only the ignorant have preconceived notions or hatred about the other. This is simply because that field of thought is not taught or discussed in families or approached in any serious measure in the media.

No north Indian in a respectable business can operate without associating with south Indians and vice versa.

So crawl back into your holes or come out into the 21st century and stop spewing hatred against your countrymen.

Anonymous said...

Well Bengali Physicist Ashok Sen wins world's most coveted,3 times worthy than entire Nobel prize-Milner prize at the inaugural year 2012.Also this year's london olympic games flag was carried by 8 distinguished persons-one of them was Bengali-Shami chakraborti.

Inventor Sampan Chakraborty said...

Well IEEE Has recently felicitated Bengali Polymath Sir JC Bose at Kolkata with the plaque for his work on wireless communication,radio,microwave optics,polarizer,de-polarizer etc and Kolkata becomes very few city in the world to recieve such Honor.

Recently Nasa's mars mission had two Bengali(no other Indian) and one of them Anita Sengupta actually landed on mars.

Inventor Sampan Chakraborty said...

Both north and south Indiana are dumb and except Kolkata,the capital of Bengal,no other Indian statee has produced any great scientist,Nobel laureate,literary icon,reformer,movie maker etc.Already Subhasish,I and Sambit has proved it quite distinctively.

Anonymous said...

read ur blog. and i feel its baseless. south indians have some positives and so does north indians. some on said north indians fart in public. well south indians just walk with there lungies half up. come on these are petty things. the thing is we are indians, every one has his one vices . adjust to it . life wil be comfortable. stop listening to the petty politicians who are cooking on ur fights. south indians have good managerial skills, while north indians have good engineering and research skills.

Harsha said...

Guys Indians are smarter(No doubt). Thats the truth. Plz stop fighting and dont divide India into north and south. This fight can be someone's strength.

jay said...

Indians are fools,even after so many years neither south india nor north india has good roads,hospitals ...what more not even (good) public toilets.While indians are fighting whether nort or south ,,world is laughing.

Anonymous said...

who ever has done this research about why south indians so smart ..has not done his homework..about demography and data collection.

what about gujratis, marwaris, biharis, sikhs, ...they are the people who are busy is establishing india and making more developed. south indian's first nature is to criticise others and ignoring their own bad points. you talk any topic they will open their mouth against north indians without thinking. on the basis of technology they jump out of their nikkers..forgetting the truth its all becasue of SMT.indira GANDHI AND her son..who brought technology. there is nothing in bangalore except glass building and IT, worst infrastructure..wholse city having kachacha roads..no sewage system ..manual scavaging .big buildings but not water to drink. they boast of ISRO AND HAL ..if u pass through that road whole road is broken and no street light..hardly one or two.? they dont know meaning of hygiene. that's called smartness?
now comes intelligence...they are great in licking others feet for money...that's why big service class is working in other coutries they dont even oppose bad things happen with them. if you watch sikhs and they working for others.. they make others follow their genuine rules and make others respect them. hardly you will find names counting on ur fingers who died for indian independce ...from south india....max were from north ..it was north who opposed first against britishes. where was the self pride gone in other places in india. if they were so smart..why they were busiy in fighting for kannda and tamil when india was burning for independence? making other work for u is smartness ..not to work for others. (exceptions are always there for good people in the world who are beyond north n south discussion the good people doesnt represent any caste creed region etc.)so when someone speak negative about others...first check data and do homework ..for genuine talks. when you talk about country that's makes sense not regions and communities. think big not small. why only people in south speak discrimated language...hate words about other..forget north..they fight with own people..kannada hate telugu and telugu hate tamils and etc..some marathi are also famous for doing nothing but being in news for stupid remarks for hate politics? is that smartness. someone saying narsimha rao....but that was the time when country faced the biggest depression in economy. someone says north indians are violent..what a joke..i have never seen a single movie in south without any clip of violence everybody comes with big farsa in hands showcase as rakshas themselves. so that's not violence i think. someone spoke about culture.. ..... so culture is what teaches us to be modest about other culture and to accept and love other cultures..not to hate and spread disgust.. when south indians go to north they get respect ..when north indians interract with south indians first reaction they get is making faces in negative motiion. its not my personal view...you do survey of people and you will get the same answer what i am saying. so i dont thing such behave make any culture great. the word smartness is self centered approach..so what more we can get in such discussion ..only provoking others sentiments. do something to spread good.

Rosha said...

Sir,
So for 3 tamilians got Noble prize and 2 people got Nobel prize from West Bengal. This tells you a lot who is smarter. No other state in India got noble prize. Castes-ism and its practice in North India has put many people illiterates. Even today castes-ism is practiced in North India. South Indian especially Tamil people are very intelligent, they are the only people in whole Indians state are living with out the caste in their name. You cant see anyone with caste as their suffix in their name in Tamil nadu. More over Tamil (Dhamila) is a very ancient and classical language and it is more than 10,000 years old. Stone inscriptions are there to prove this. Rich in vocabulary perfect in grammar, unique architecture that is totally different from Northern makes them very intelligent people. Of course northern are very cunning.

Mathai Varghese said...

The South has a large Israelite blood, particularly Kerala, the Iyers, Iyengars etc.. Need anything more be said?

Don't believe in the above?

Jewish Background of Indian People. Jeevanist Books, Nalanda, AG Road, Calicut-1

DNA and historical research is confirming this.

Anonymous said...

Stop fighting, north and south India! You are all Chinese anyway....

Anonymous said...

most of the intelligent people are from bangalore due to the christian element. christianity destoryed the caste and created more wealth, if north india would do the same, i bet the north will receive an enormous amount of money from outsiders and create wealth within their community. the tamils actually aren't that smart, they only received a little advancement from the christians. spiritually esp the hindus they are corrupt, it it wasnt from their christian brothers they would be no where today. give tamils the opportunity to make a lot of money it usually ends in corruption. they do better at working 20 hours a day on a computer, away from other humans. this way they appear smarter and more civilized.

Subhasish Chatterjee said...

The person who said 3 Tamil Nobel laureates is a big lair because 2 of them won with American Natinality and one from Kolkata,the capital of Bengal.No Indian city or state has won a single Nobel prize yet but Kolkata is the home of 5 Nobel laureates.Literature,missionaries of charity which won in peace and economics prize were won by Bengali and Ronald Ross won for medicine.

But the persons like Jc Bose,one of all time greatest inventor who has been felicitated by IEEE in 2012 and Satyendra Bose,one of top 25 Physicist of all time whose work has already given 10 persons Nobel prize(also known for boson particle) and test tube baby pioneer Bengali dictor Subhas Mukhopadhya whose death in 1981 caused him the Nobel in 2010>Bengalis have produced Asia's best literay icon(Tagore),Physicist(Satyendra Bose),Economist(MD.Yunus or Asia's only Economist laureate Amartya Sen),musicisn Ravishankr or his Daughter Nora Jones and total of 17 Grammy awards and Oscar including legendary Satyajit Ray,Swami Vivekananda etc...rest of India will take 1000 more years to achieve what Bengal have already done...so don't fall in trap of those Tamil lairs

Now read this page-famous people of Kolkata-wikipedia

Also read the page of Bengal renaissance.

Anonymous said...

hi, i study in a college where people from different parts of India study together. Some of the north indians associate based on the extent of their good looks here. Then there are the Bangalore kids who try acting like Americans. Then there are the Andhra kids who hangout together irrespective of the Telangana-andhra disputes. The Mallus though in small populations always huddle up together. Everyone speaks loudly to gain attention. Some smart kids go beyond all these external features and make great friends across all these groups. Still the ugly kids have no place or recognition just like in the rest of the world. Every good looking Indian is treated with respect everywhere in the world.(I am not talking about politics.) The South Indians have got only IT as an option for a promising future.
Or else they end up with small jobs in their own states. Also rich/ to be rich south Indian guys marry of to rich/fair girls. The educated south Indian average looking girls are the most sane of all people because they are in a position where they can recognise all these weird discriminations of
north/South
fair/dark
man/woman
pretty/not that pretty
educated/uneducated

So the uneducated dark and not that pretty (= ugly) south indian women are probably the ones facing most discrimination. They grow more uglier and poorer by the day.

Their educated counterparts have realized the situation and are the sanest of all Indians as they are the most likely of all Indians to ponder over the issue without any ego.
They prefer to marry a more liberal and passionate person (good looks are in their catelogue)

The South Indians are having just two options :
>Stay in your own state
>Leave the country and flee to any English speaking nation.

Also the parents pressurize their children in every aspect of their life in South India and they thus believe that the child's future is secure only if it is designed by their experienced hands. So opting out of college and working in a gas station => completely making yourself an outcast from the society.
They think they are forward. But no. They are more careful. Because they know that one wrong step and their life is permanently fixed in the stage where they can no longer afford anything but curd-rice and pickle.

Anonymous said...

What the help is people writing above.the topic was on intelligence difference b/w north Indian & south Indian.if a topic converts to region or religion but we not have to say anything bad to any region or any religion.if a Sikh punjabi wears turban on his head, then what is the problem to southerns & on another side if a.southern is in black complex then what harm to other north persons.please simply think why we are entraped in these kind of irrelevant things, who will call us educated because education reflects from behaviour,attitude not from any degree or any language. There may be some people which are engaged in these bad things like language or any region,religion. According to my thinking now world has become a globe. A northern is doing work in south or foreign & same with southern.

I am a Punjabi Sikh. I only tells one thing to all those persons who called the turban a funny thing. Have any one of you visited amritsar or any gurudwara, there you will see hungry & poor people taking food free, getting rooms & free toikeys. Even also Their utensils in which they had ate the free food (we called it langar) are washed by free service.have anyone seen this thing in any southern place.please don't think I am against the southern people.would any person from us gave food to any poor people.please think on that.it southerns are 40% of Indian population ,then sikhs are only 2% of the population. Had anyone of us started the free food service. A company,organisation,country growth never depends upon the quantity it have but on quality.please see the example of America.

I apologize if any word of mine hurts anyone.
Goodbye
Amandeep singh

Anonymous said...

amandeep,I respect what is done at the gurudwaras. A lot of temples in tamilnadu have the free food thing now. This was brought around by the government of TN. Just saying.

Madhuri said...

That has to be the most unscientific inquiry ever made by a scientist. "South Indians feel insecure because they are smaller and darker...but it's okay, because they're all smarter!"

Honestly, the way South Indians and North Indians relate to each other depends almost entirely on the class and education of the Northerner and Southerner in question. Note that I said class, not caste. It's possible to be a Brahmin and so poor and lower-middle-class that an upper class, lower-caste executive would never associate with you.

The less education that a Northerner or Southerner have, the less they have in common and the more they stereotype each other.

Highly educated Southerners and Northerners have a lot in common and inter-mingle, inter-marry and work together on a regular basis.

Anonymous said...

Viewing this from a great distance (US, Ashkenazic Jew), but being a longtime admirer of most things Indian save for M.K. Gandhi and the Nehru dynasty, I think that the many interesting comments here, almost all of which have been educational, and often quite funny, simply bear out *the narcissism of small differences*, which is a human rather than a subcontinental predilection.

Americans generally know that Indians are pretty damned smart, and most couldn't tell a Tamil from a Kashmiri, much less point out either region on the map. In fact, the "smart South Indian" phenomenon was first pointed out to me by a Bengali.

Indian-Americans PROPER, not Tamils, not Punjabis, but Americans of Indian descent are now the leading earners in the US, having surpassed (gasp!) even the Eastasians and my coreligionists.

How these extraordinary folk could have been 85% illiterate at independence (and that IS the stat given) is simply beyond my comprehension. Caste constraints? Rural/agrarian life? Brit cultural imperialism? The mind boggles.

And one other odd question... why do some refer to Northerners as "chapati-eaters" (or some such). Are not chapatis eaten throughout the land?

Abhirup Mukherjee said...

"The south Indian ares smart was given to me by A Bengali"

Hilarious.Actually it was given to you by a Bangladeshi(Muslim) Bengali whose average literacy is 55% and average IQ is 75 or even less.

It's actually Bengali Hindu upper caste which has produced more luminaries than entire India and in abroad 2% Bengali routinely outperform rest of 98% in all intellectual fields.I hope you understand that being intellectual does not mean producing copy cat IT professionals.

For more details visit-Indian/Chinese IQ puzzle

Read comments of two Bengali posting there (Great and Sampan Chakraborty).you will understand the difference between Bengali intellectual and rest of India.

talking about IQ Bengali Brahmin have IQ variance 115-122,one of the highest in the world and two other upper caste have got IQ average 110 or above.

Unknown said...

i am South Indian (Bangalore) and simply do bot understand how anyone can say that North Indians have on culture!North India is one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant and to pass such a blanket statement amounts ignorance.As far as intelligence is concerned it in reality still depends on individual basis.I feel South Indian parents especially Tamilian and Kannadiga parents are very demanding when in comes to their children's academics. The high marks of these students often gives a deceptive sense of intelligence.

Anonymous said...

This is the most stupid article I have ever come across. It is just the other way round and South Indians are the worst examples of Indians to the rest of the world in all possible ways. They not only look dirty but also smell, speak and act dirty leaving a bad taste in the mouth about the Indians. East, North and West are far more modern, liberal and advanced from the South and it is just the huge population of South Indians who try to portray their great image while they have done nothing for India.

Anonymous said...

subash chatterjee that guy is right 3 noble prize winners from tamilnadu .ramakrishnan born in tamilnadu and worked here for 10yrs then only moved to US so what he still represented india and he is tamilian.all south staes developed IT in india and it is biggest revenue of indian govt.even vivekanada came to tamilnadu and become a disciple of ramakrishna paramahamsar a tamilian and vivekanada said in his next birth he wanted to be born as a tamilian

AB said...

@anonymous-You Pakistani/Indian Muslim can try several ways to break India but we superior Bengali Brahmins are well aware of it.

My request to blogger don't publish those comments who are insulting you or insulting any specific group without any logic.We often insult other Indian because of our achievements from West Bengal(which is a matter of jealousy for many Indian)but some people are trying to create division.

Inventor Sampan Chakraborty said...

Hey low Iq Tamil Brahmin,Your C.V Raman went to Bengal to beg for our pardon and we gave him chance,your 2 other Nobel laureates are American and have nothing to do with Indian.

India has not produced any Nobel prize,Kolkata the capital of Bengal has produced 4 Nobel as first in Asia starting with 1902...Well J.C Bose is now being credited by IEEE and he alone has contributed more than all your Tamil scientist.Subhas mukherjee who created IVF in Kolkata died long ago before Nobel prize was awarded in 2010...

In fact in terms of population Bengali brahmins are best in the world here in US,and 2 Bengali upper caste have produced 2 Hall f fame inventor here in US,while there is only one other Indian who went to hall of fame.

I don't give a crap about your IT,I don't give a crap about rest of India,China,japan because no one has achieved more than Bengali brahmin-kayastha community mostly working in Kolkata,our dear homeland.

Tell India to win 1 Nobel prize from the country(not our Kolkata),otherwise bow down to your master Bengali Brahmin.

Anonymous said...

hmmm.... this might be a very late response, but.....

A guy asks a simple doubt and what we do, fight between north and south.

A north Indian should reply "YES SOUTH INDIAN ARE DAMN SMART, U R RIGHT"... and a south Indian's reply should be.... "NO THAT IS NOT RIGHT, NORTH INDIAN ARE SMARTER THAN US"

Being smart is not about u r north or south... it is about how you are brought up, the education system etc etc etc....



Anupam Decent Guy said...

what the hell going on here,
have all of us forget that we all have only one identity that we r Indians?
wtf all of u r sick, I dnt think any country quarrel over south and north matter. tht's why foreigners call us idiots becoz we really are. it's sad we all south and north indian work together to make our nation a great nation stop argue over nonsense all bastards.

Anonymous said...

To the author: Is this an experiment to test if the divide and rule policy still works? If yes, then you got your answer. We Indians are still dumb-ass m*****f*****g idiots :)

Anonymous said...

traditionally greater emphasis has been placed on the intellectual development of a child in south india more than the north.

Anonymous said...

hey.. you south indians.... if u are insulting hindi... ur insulting ur country. it is your NATIONAL LANGUAGE FOR GOD SAKE. so all indians should know hindi.. southern or northern

and helo... southerns just memorise.. idk much about north (mainstream north) but others(east/west) do have practical knowledge unlike southerns

Desi Pride World Wide! said...

Khan: "South Indians (from my experience) seem to have somewhat of an inferiority complex visa vis the north, especially the Hindi cow-belt. This is partly because of the north's cultural domination. But it's also because southerners are small and darker. If fact, I would hazard to guess that many northern fathers would object to their daughters marrying a southerner purely on racial grounds-backed up of course by traditional caste prejudices."

- Khan has obviously never been to India. Northern fathers would not object to their daughters marrying South Indian men on "racial grounds." What racial grounds? Both are Indians.

Caste prejudices? Same castes in North you find in South.


Steve: "Why are there so many extremely smart people from the South of India? I mean, there's certainly nothing lacking about the big, fairer-skinned folks from the North of India, but the small, dark-skinned Dravidian-speakers from the South are something."

- South Indians are no shorter than North Indians on average. And neither are they darker.

I really wish people would go to India and experience the people for themselves for once before speaking with such self-important authority about them.

Anonymous said...

I think most intelligent peoples are keralites.It's not my thought its right.according to tamil students they just mug up all the things.They are not under standing anything else.Then how can we say that they are brilliant.I am a keralite and i am studing my ug course in tamil nadu and i came to realize

Anonymous said...

One stupid post by a phirangi..and mostof you forgot that you are an Indian first. Color,caste,race etc..are man made.No wonder,the British knew exactly how to divide and rule India.

Stop hating,love one another.United we stand..divided we fall. Get a higher perspective, stop living like a frog in a well..if you can't help it..get a fucking life or a hobby.

Indian for Real..



I'm an Indian.

Unknown said...

Just count how many Nobel prize winners are in India, there are only two states in India
1)Tamil Nadu - 4 winners and their mother tongue is Tamil
2)West Bengal - 3 winners and their mother tongue is Bengali and by blood Tamil and 1 from Bombay that is it. What happened to other states and northerners. Just go to Wikipedia and look for your self the Tamil Numbering system.
Come to your own conclusions my friend.

Unknown said...

No one in India is intelligent. We are all fools of our own ignorance. Think it this way why did pandavas win over kauravas...
1.kauravas were born of one father and one mother and their one fertilised ovum.
2.pandavas were born of four fathers and two mothers.
3. Kauravas got defeated by their lack of variability in intellect physique and genetics. .
4.most intelligent person vidhur was son of vyasa and a slave.
5. Most powerful bheeshma was a son of king shantanu and ganga.
6. Even the king who ruled largest dynasty on this soil chandra gupta maurya was a son of a kshyatriya and a fisherwoman
..............So one can be called intelligent only when he realises that lack of genetic variability leads to stagnation of power intellect economy and genetics. ...and this stagnation makes us susceptible to every minor change in nature. .and that this kind of stagnation is the root cause of all hatred and corruption. ..

We are all fools fighting over trivialities. ..

Anonymous said...

If you feel the need to bash north Indians to show how smart south Indians are, then there is a clear note of jealousy and remorse. Intelligence has nothing to do with a persons geographical location, but with an inner drive. This article's arguments are invalid.

Unknown said...

Although I am NOT an Indian however I did my undergraduate degree from North India. A South Indian would think I am a North Indian.

I work in Information Technology Industry - in the US I see everywhere South Indians - beyond my belief, I'm experiencing that South Indians are so narrow minded and ethnocentric people. They never share with me anything at work whereas they share among themselves very much. They even don't mind telling the manager that I left at 4:30 PM instead of 5 PM. Americans think that I must be in their circles - but God knows that these people are Satan and evil but they are doing so well.

Unknown said...

Dear friends don't quarell about who are smart evary man who learns from his prevoious mistakes become smarter.... being indians you should not quarrel about the post kept by an outsider because that is the cause why we had been rule by the others stop quarelling just praise each other every body in this universe will have their own
capabalities none is better than others all have different qualities otherwise this world cannot run..... please don't quarrells among us.....

Anonymous said...

you know according to ramayana you are the sons of (vanara) (i.e) monkey men the king from india Rama send you to leave for western countries and make a living there as there was no place and you know about Vishwa mithra he is the one who proved to the aliens that men are far better than any one in this universe he can do any thing he wants if he desired for that you people just come crashed that network and knowledge has been burnt without knowing importance of that...just stop commenting on Indians and realise the truth

ANISH PAPPACHAN said...

So sad to see these comments. I am from kerala but if someone ask me where are you from i say From INDIA..If Pakistan or China declared a war on us thats not on SOUTH OR NORTH INDI. thats on India on us. When we got the independence that was given to the whole India not to Punjabi or Madrasi. There are differences i know because its a huge country but still we are under one flag and under one nation called India. Respect our people Respect our Nation.

ANISH PAPPACHAN said...

So sad to see these comments. I am from kerala but if someone ask me where are you from i say From INDIA..If Pakistan or China declared a war on us thats not on SOUTH OR NORTH INDI. thats on India on us. When we got the independence that was given to the whole India not to Punjabi or Madrasi. There are differences i know because its a huge country but still we are under one flag and under one nation called India. Respect our people Respect our Nation.

Aroon said...

Yea Yea, I bet you can piss further than Indian on the other side. Silly Stupid discussion board. People, get the hell out of here and do something good for your country. Chauvinists!!

Anonymous said...

What have you contributed to the world with your brain? Keyboard warrior? Which is developed by the west?? Working on already developed software? Ignorant fool!8

Unknown said...

Hey u all are just talking bullshit
U want to know some north indian scientists? Sarvadaman Chowla(mathematician), Hargobind Khorana(nobel aureate/biochemist),Sanjeev Arora(godel prize, twice) and what about Bengalis They have produced four Nobel laureates 3 from India 1 from Bangladesh and SN Bose deserved but didn't get it.
It's all about culture. If southerners are so good then why doesn't they produce enough math/science talent at par with Russia or eastern european countries like Hungary, Romania ?

Anonymous said...

India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters. I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage. I shall always strive to be worthy of it. I shall give respect to my parents, teachers and elders and treat everyone with courtesy. To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion. In their well being and prosperity alone lies my happiness.Jai Hind

Anonymous said...

The brahmins of south india with their performance in scientific fields are the reason of this positive stereotyping. There are 3 noble winning south indians,all of them brahmins. Now i have noticed south indians hating south indian brahmins and here they r taking the credit of south indian brahmins who they believe to be outsider.

Anonymous said...

I think generally I have seen people from south have enjoyed stability for several generations. Most of the invasions have been from northern side so little aggressive behavior evolved to enable rest of Indians in peace. I perceive the strength of southern people except tamilians is they are simple life style. Tamilians certainly have a very high self esteem. Southern state people have migrated relatively more and so are more visible. I think maharashtrians are very cultured, however tend to not migrate. gujarathis have very good commercial sense. So it is a matter of perception. I think now the global trend would shift to see more Indians driving innovation, its already started to emerge. Huge population has challenged individual sustenance leading to a competition wherein everyone needs to outsmart others.

Anonymous said...

BTW, there is something called Western India. The best part of India. Minimal Brahminism; loads of music, dance; pro-business (by Indian standards); not so superstitious, not so anti-women and regionalist like South India; nor as lawless as UP-Bihar. No naxalite problem (in fact, a healthy relationship between plains and tribal people), no hatred for the neighboring state, etc.

Western India= Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Western MP, Sindh, and some communities of Punjab, Haryana, and UP.

Historically, Maharashtra and Goa got Brahminism and some other bad and good things from South India.

Punjab and Haryana were devastated by partition and warfare, not of their own choosing-- they became more persianized.

Anonymous said...

Shymaprasad Mukherjee.....southies never contributes to independence....india got independence becoz of North east and west indians....Bengali is the 7 th most popular language in world.....only hindi is in 4 th position...no other indian language are in top 10...check Google for more info.....

Anonymous said...

South or north , black or white everything is equal..I'm a south Indian boy ..I was reading the above comments..every state hve an unique quality ..please friends don't fight ..let us stop fighting like a dump..1st of all v r human c everyone as human then try 2 luv them ,dont form caste and community.this is the one and only problem that India face..I go gym , guitar class I find a lots of north Indians I always hv smile respect thm and they too..v r Indians..genetically many cross happen but don't underestimate others..

rec1man said...

California National Merit Semifinalist list-2015

Total Indians winners = 350
Total Indian 11th grade = 5200

Muslims = 10 / 600
Xtians = 10 / 600

Patels = 10 / 600
Sikhs = 10 / 600

Remaining = 310 winners / 2800

Forward caste Dravidians = 65 / 900 = 7%

South Indian Brahmins ( Migrants from North India ) = 125 / 600 = 21%.

North Indian Upper caste = 110 / 1000 = 11%

The south Indian higher IQ is mostly South Indian brahmin IQ

Anonymous said...

Jews lived in Kerala for about 2 millinia. some of them were the first converts to Christianity in Kerala.
kerala consists of 55% hindus, 25% muslims and 20% Christians. Since Kerala has 20% Christians, there are plenty of educational institutions in Kerala. Thus Kerala got 100% literacy. Kottayam, populated by Christians, became the first district in India with 100% literacy rate.

Anonymous said...

Southern indian are mostly Dravidians who were taught to wear proper clothes by Aryans, without which they would have still walked around covering there bodies with mango leaves, and travelled from point A to B on elephants.

HaterorRacists said...

I myself am a Telugu person. I do not think that it is right to say that north indians are dumb or that south indians are ugly black monkeys(man, thats almost racist!). I believe that Indians as a whole are smart. And I don't get the part about North Indians being bigger in size. They aren't and South Indians aren't small so what?!??!!? Anyways, intelligence depends on culture and childhood. Like someone else said, maybe North India had more attacks and so focused more on learning how to be strong and how to fight (maybe that why you guys think north indians are "bigger" in size) and we south indians didn't really have attacks and so we could focus more on learning. Maybe, it suddenly jumped at point in time after being hidden for a while.

Anonymous said...

True

Anonymous said...

Tamils are the smartest people.... That's the fact

Anonymous said...

The People who use their brains r smart, nothing specific about it. Ppl who mingle with others have enlighten minds.Nothing to do with birth, its on the environment where he/she is raised and the situations he/she handles.

Unknown said...


a day will come when india will be divided on the basis of "south india" and "north india" . just like "south korea" and "north korea"

Anonymous said...

Yes. South Indian are intelligent for sure. Murugan is our God. Cholas is the only Indian king who ruled a foregin country (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore etc). Now a days North Indian are migrating to settle in Tamil Nadu as North India became terrorists affected area. They come here to study IT, BE and to work in IT industry and MNCs. They are changing our Food habit and dressing code. We should protect and uphold our culture. We should protect Tamil language against Hindi language. It is certainly a foreign language for us.

Anonymous said...

I am a north indian ...i feel really offenfed by the article...i think it creates a kind of difference between north and south india...it rarely matters whether it a north or a south indian's proficiency in academics...but the thing that matters is our unity....as is truly said united we stand divided we fall.....and the article is totally irrevalent...I'm an indian first....then a north indian....and im proud to be one....im amused how such idiosyncratic people tries to create such misunderstandings between us....go look yourselve .... ur true identity in a mirror

Anonymous said...

i just cannot believe this!!!!!what the heck is all on people!!!!!! why are we indians (me included)fighting over the most trivial things?? we may be north or south indians but the fact remains that we are indians and proud indians at that!!this is how the world sees us and this how we are!do u guys know something , by fighting over some seiously silly issue brought on by a wrong question we are paving the way for other countries to take advantage of our"disunity"!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP GUYS ,WAKE UP!!we are INDIANS and no one is gonna change that, like it or not!!!

James Hunt said...

I dont think it is true to say that southern indians are smarter than north indians when 5 nobel prize winner came from calcutta. I have stayed in south india for 5 yrs and I can tell you exactly how it is, it is crude and unsophisticated. Look at the way south indian women are treated, they are forced into pregnancy right after they get married, grooms house take dowry etc etc. South indian Bramhin class seems to be sophisticated but still dogmatic. In south india all political leaders are filmstars, none of them started politics from grassroot level, probably with the exception of Kerala Communist Party. What you are saying is probably education rate, but can you truely judge a society based on that? What is the use of an education which does not bring a society out of medieval structure and into light? Of course we cannot generalise like this. We have people like Chandrasekhar and CV Raman from South India, but if you come and stay here you will know what the true picture is. They get born, go about their business get married make children earn money and then die, pathetic. South Indian women work in MNCs to gather their dowry, can you believe it?

DravidanSouthindie said...

Steve Sailer
I have to say that you cannot put forth opinions of others who do not belong to those communities, when you state about some thing as your statement, that gives an impression that you go by his opinion

WE SOUTH-INDIANS BELONG TO THE DRAVIDAN LANGUAGE FAMILY,
NORTH,EAST,WESTERN LANGUAGES IN INDIA DO NOT BELONG TO THE LINGUISTIC DIVISION


THE POINT I SAY IS THAT WE DRAVIDAIN-LANGUAGE-SPEAKERS
DO NOT ASK A INDO-ARYAN-LANGUAGE SPEAKER ABOUT US, ASK US DIRECTLY


Bengalis/Bangladeshis normally like Hindis have inferiority complex, because their
linguistic boundaries do not touch the DravidanLanguage Lingustic areas which are usually the SOUTHERN REGION OF INDIAN PENINSULA, the RestOfIndian(excluding South).
have their own perceptions of us, that perceptions are we are darker-skinned, we are small in comparison to them does not hold any water,
COME SEE TO YOURSELF, WE ARE FAIRER/TALLER AS FAIR AS ANY REST-OF-INDIANS(Proportion of population is dark beacuse of TANNING nothing else, let any person from RestOf India come and stay for a generation, and get exosped to the Southern sun during summer, the climatic is quite different from rest of India, they too will become tanned, intense sun )

WE HAVE A CONGRUENT,CONTINUAL HISTORY AMONG OUR FOUR LANGUAGES OF DRAVIDAN LINGUISTIC DIVISION ITSELF, CULTURALLY/LINGUISTICALLY WE ARE AUTHENTIC INDIANS WE WERE NOT A PART OF INDIA TILL BRITISH RULED US, SO DONOT EXPECT US TO BE THE SAME AS REST-OF-INDIANS, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN PRETTY MORE HAPPIEST IF WE WERE GIVEN OUR OWN LINGUISTIC-GROUP TERRITORY IN 1.9.4.7, HAPPIEST IF WE WOULD HAVE CONTINUED UNDER BRITAIN


1. TELUGU is a South-Central Dravidan language
2. TAMIL is a Southern Dravidan language
( so are
3. MALAYALAM, and
4. KANNADA Southern Dravidan languages)



That BENGALI/BANGLADESHI person he neither he knows any of the four ( of the DRAVIDAN GROUP OF LANGUAGES) South Indian languages nor has mingled with any South Indian Tamil,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam, so his apprehensions/assumptions are worthless

ENOUGH FOR NOW!!

Anonymous said...

A bloody bastard called Steve Sailer has posted this blog and all our Indians are fighting on his shitty observations/comments.. And the bastard Steve is enjoying the comments without closing this blog... What a pity...

Come on Indians... Never think of India as divided pieces joined together like USA (the so called United States of America). India was called as "India" only and it will be called as "India" forever, no matter any bastards like Steve Sailer try to inject poisonous thoughts like this into Indian minds.

Any country is made up of multiple religions, castes, races etc and there are 100% chances of differing qualities of people across various regions of that country. Just appreciate the positives of the other regions and improve your negative areas and grow up together as one INDIA.. Never let the dogs like Steve bark among us...

Leave the Sailer alone to sail in any Ocean and drown himself..

Anonymous said...

What's the point of such argument?
SMARTNESS isn't a measurement that scales your ability!
FAR-OUT!, such arguments only happen in India, there is no intelligent outcome from any of you people. Why does it matter anyway?

Anonymous said...

That's majorly because of malyalees' pride in themselves, which we really don't know why!!! Only they think they are better than other Indians!! Tired of malyalee friends, only admiring their own celebrities, own culture, food, their own people!!! Only they do it!! I would suggest them to wake up n smell the coffee!!! It's India not only Kerala!!

Anonymous said...

I am completely agree with you. It's an insult to northern. No doubt you are calling them smart. More over they r darker, small, and bigger tummies.skills has a biggest ground. They never looks smart on silver screen and has a limited talent in singing. Being Indians they never show the interest to learn or speak hindi which is our national language and they never talks to northern without benefit. On the north ground they always become hungry to speak tamil and Mlylm as they are aliens on earth and try minimum to speak hindi. They shows a confused and scared look on their faces. So there are so many aspects being smart. On the other side north people's are dominating in other skills.

Anonymous said...

The assumption that South Indians are dark is wrong. I can show South Indians both brahmin and non brahmins fairer than Kashmiris. I am from Punjab there are dark skinned people even from Punjab. In Punjabi there is a prover ' Gadiyan lelo chapathi ka pani hai, Chaltha hai garam natwarlal hoon' Means skin color is natures gift for hardwork. So do no make fun of anyone. It is not correct. Calling Punjabis monkeys is another trend I have seen in the internet. That is also not correct.

Sanovius said...

In my opinion, better intelligence of Southern Indians is caused by lesser caste divisions and better food. It seems that northern and central India suffer from malnutrition (vegetanism, hunger because of unstable climate). In siouthern India there is no such a contrast in the climate, so drougths last shorter, people are less hungry and more nutritioned. They problably eat more meat than northerners. In my opinion, it influences higher intelligence in southern India. The north, centre and east (above all Bengal) must improve medical infrastructure, fooding of children and water resources to use all the potential of its people

Anonymous said...

I am not a racist or a 'regionalist' however I have noticed the people from the south of India ( most of them if not all ) might be smart but are zero at discipline, attitude, tidiness and manners ..

If you don't believe me, Just watch them eating.

People from Gujarat are rather the most academic in India, I say so not because I am one of them but because the whole of India is envious of us ..

Pulkit said...

Here as a North Indian, I think the comments made by some here are prejudiced and I find them funny towards North Indians...
Anyway live in your own world and become the UK or the USA whatever you want to... Seems really foolish comments to me made by these people...

Anonymous said...

A bloody bastard called Steve Sailer has posted this blog and all our Indians are fighting on his shitty observations/comments.. And the bastard Steve is enjoying the comments without closing this blog... What a pity...

Come on Indians... Never think of India as divided pieces joined together like USA (the so called United States of America). India was called as "India" only and it will be called as "India" forever, no matter any bastards like Steve Sailer try to inject poisonous thoughts like this into Indian minds.

Any country is made up of multiple religions, castes, races etc and there are 100% chances of differing qualities of people across various regions of that country. Just appreciate the positives of the other regions and improve your negative areas and grow up together as one INDIA.. Never let the dogs like Steve bark among us...

Leave the Sailer alone to sail in any Ocean and drown himself..

Unknown said...

People who eat more omega 3,6 fatty acid rich foods are intelligent. Some of the foods containing omega fatty acids are butter, ghee, fish oil goat cholesterol, beef cholesterol, much more and some seeds like flaxseeds, walnuts, soya bean oil etc,,,proteins are also important for brain development at early stage. Ex meat, beef, pumpkin etc..,,people with more intake of such fatty acids from early age makes them brilliant.... BUT I learnt from vedas that NON VEG is full of negative energy in addition to omega and protein richness... People who eat non veg are poor in knowledge gaining it blocks divine areas of brain.. That's why we rare MUSLIM community scientific studies.Greatest scientists, musicians and knowledgeble geniuses are VEGETARIANS... So please be vegetarian and eat pure BUTTER of A2 milk of humped indian cow makes you genius in all aspects.. SEMEN is important for men for brain activations butter which is rich in omega fatty acids draws semen to deeper parts of brain for activations.. A2 milk from Indian cow is good for semen production...

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Unknown said...

Brahmins are also intelligent in knowledge gaining I because they eat dairy products like ghee(omega) , milk (semen) etc.. some Brahmins are over smart because of over eating habits which blocks some divine areas also kannadigas use more ghee in foods but over eating some foods makes kannadigas over smart poor knowledgeable.In malayalies they eat fish, coconut oil which has omega fatty acids.some of them who are mostly vegetarian are intelligent in studies..

Unknown said...

All intelligent and creative people of india are from coastal areas especially tamils,malayalies, bengalis, gujarathis,coastal AP, coastal mumbai, etc because they take more omega fatty acids rich food like FISH from ancient times..

Unknown said...

A R RAHMAN from tamils, APJ abdul kalam from fish, meat eating Muslims, Manmohan Singh fish, meat eating Sikhs, narendra modi from hindus are VEGETARIANS

Arun said...

Education Makes Every one Smarter...Nothing else.

In Kerala,Tamil Nadu,Assam,Punjab,Gujarat or Bihar,Its the actual Scenario.




Anonymous said...

Hi guys,
I want to tell one thing. An IT company in bangalore owned by North Indian. He is the fool, I never seen in my life. As we are discussing who is smarter, I will say South Indian only, because in my real life experience. North Indian focus on trendy visual things only and their mouth will open from Jammu Kashmir to Kanyakumari, but incapable of getting into action that means till last moment their mouth only will speak Even they will create a blame point someone else to backoff from responsibilities. They expect from output like ATM machine (where you insert your debit card and enter amount get cash) minded. Normally fools work in that way, they don't think of the future that is the problem with North Indians. Whereas South Indian respects other dignity what if we ask/raise doubts or else we want to clarify things in development, they will take 2 days to reply. Smartness relies on clarity, that clarity is not there with that north indian guy. If anyone mind is open and focus should be broader, then anyone either north or south indian smarter.
North Indian always want to execute things, but there is no plan or analysis.

Bino Sebastian said...

There is no doubt southern people are smarter than north, not forgetting we have great people from North too. Considering the data, Nobel winners, achievers in different fields, credit goes to South. They give much important to education and mental needs, wherein the Northern people much concerned about temporary, phisical pleasure and luxurious life. Practice become habits and habits become character and it pass through our blood stream.

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Anonymous said...

And this is how north Indians behave?guess north Indians Loose their temper...anywhere....anytime for no reason.
Really, the problem with Indians are the partiality. It doesn't matter if you're from North or south, just think that we're Indians.

Anonymous said...

everyone pls be calm and enjoy ur day call ursellf Indian u will feel better if someone comments in some way it doesn't mean that whole state or region has that opinion

Anonymous said...

I stumbled on this site by accident.
I was quite taken aback by all the comments on here. I am born to South Indians in South Africa. My mother was born in South Africa. My mother's mother came here at the age of 15 with my mother's grandparents. My mother's grandparents were brought to South Africa as slaves by the British to Durban to work in the sugar cane fields. My father's father came direct from India as a child with my father's grand parents to Port Elizabeth. They were not brought by the British. Both my mother's and father's roots are from Madras in the South of India, what is now known as Channel.
The reason why I was taken aback is because I had experienced this "so-called superior-ness by the Gujerati when I went to school. Obviously this was an "Indian school" in the Apartheid era. They looked down at us Tamils for no apparent reason. There were also a few Hindustani kids but we were friends. It seemed that the Gujerati kids also thought they were better than them. It seemed they were raised to think they were a more important species. I didn't understand this at all then. Later on in my adult I learnt about the caste system in India.
I learnt how to read and write (not converse) Tamil and to this day I am stuvery grateful.

Anonymous said...

Apologies that ended abruptly.
I meant to say I am very grateful to have come to know a part of my (Tamilism) as one's identity is important.
From what I have heard is that North India has been through a "blending machine" with the Iranians, the Greeks, the British and so on and therefore no longer dark compared to the South Indians. ...and I am sure North Indians know this very well. Why then do North Indians say South Indians are black and ugly like monkeys? Surely these kind of remarks in this day and age is undemocratic and derogatory! to put it mildly. I gather from what I've read, is that most North Indians have a complex about their end result of blending,(thinking it is more beautiful and superior) that they have come a "long way" from the "Southern look" and forgotten their true identity to a point of Un-indianism based on their now-fair complexion only. How sad indeed! ...and I cannot believe how they can say can still say or think (have the gall/nerve to) they are "upper caste"?!
I would like to also mention that when I was at school, South Indians were extremely smart. They took most of the awards. I am so very proud to this day (even though an atheist now) of my very South Indian roots. Infact I am grateful for it. I know I am Royal. I don't have to feel or act it. My root history is extremely rich in all the good things. I would like to say to South Indians - embrace your unblended heritage, your dignity, your culture, your smartness and your Tamilism and your Royalty. Don't let/allow an inferior complexed bunch of blended people tell you, you are less!
Well then just maybe too, while you're at it, vote for a Southern State, so that the Northerner's (including the North Govt) can ride on their own (Northern) GDP. Teach them a "root" lesson.

Anonymous said...

PS I have also heard that dark skinned people of their own (Northern kind) are shunned in Bollywood. Are you filming complexion or talent?
Please do not come to South Africa and wag your tail because Black is certainly beautiful here. We're not interested in your blended complexion.
I also think Northerner's are short-sighted because South Indians are also tall and fair and black and beautiful. Go visit some day.

Anonymous said...

I mentioned above that I have become an atheist.
...because religion,language and race have divided this world. It has caused hatred, wars and harm and to our future generations to come. We need to embrace humanity in its fullness.
Northerner's catch a wake-up with your newly-found "fairness". (and don't confuse it with smartness).This world will end up Brown.
Tamils take your language back and make it National. It's afterall THE oldest language in this world. That's what we all spoke at one time. Also understand that your language gave you memory and structure. So embrace your Smartness to its fullest!
Sanskrit is not Truly Indian!
Your Govt should stop forcing Hindi as a new English down your throat. You guys should tell them this to their face. It's an insult to Royalism.

Anonymous said...

It reminds me off my very own South African history. The rotten eggs from France, the convicts from Holland and the trouble makers of society from Belgium who came to South Africa and took on a superior cloak whilst their mentality was still on the ground, who forced their language (Afrikaans) on other's (a language they're still working on) and who committed the biggest evil - depriving a nation of an education. ...aside from all the inhumane atrocities to enslave and get to the top. they're still not superior. They told their kids they were superior among the rest and now those kids are having problems. Poor kids. They have to leave their crowns at home now.

anagh.ceon said...

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was from south India and he was once the president of our nation .there is no logic in your comment

anagh.ceon said...

There is an urban legend that Shakespeare was a Tamil speaking South Indian from Tanjore district who migrated to England-this legend is well known in south India. Stupidest urban legend ever .

anagh.ceon said...

Malayalees being pro north is bullshit. We are people of Tamil origin

anagh.ceon said...

Do you know the meaning of the word intelligence

anagh.ceon said...

Tipu sultans forefathers came from a different region . he is not actually south Indian .

Anonymous said...

There is a difference between being intelligent and being cunning, I think that Tamilians may have taken the advantage of cunningness. And by the way If you say for Intellects Bengal leads all in case of literature Tagore, in case of leader Netaji, in case of science JC Bose the one who discovered life in plants and the very thing called radio wave communication was his idea,
Also to say for Vivekanda and Vidhyasagar the people who were very Noble and promoted humanity over anythinganything.

Anonymous said...

Amitabh Bachchan is his name and by the way more people know Hindi then they know South Indian Languages. So that is why he is popular and you call them not to take Thalaiva Rajni in much importance that may be because of people like you who hate North Indians. Look at at I am a North Indian and I know and respect Rajnikant as a great actor but you do not even know Amitabh who is a world famous legend even overseas this clearly says that you people hate us for no reason, that is not at all fair. And also you can not rebuke on someones' staple diet, that is very wrong.

Anonymous said...

HA...HA...HA..HAINDI!!?
stop it you shrieking freak it is called Hindi by people on this planet.
Correct your grammar Human!

Anonymous said...

Claim yourself Hindu, then you are not, Shiva worshiped Rama. Ofcourse you must know this. And since you defy Rama you are not at all a Hindu and must stop all rituals of Hindus if you do and by the way Hindi--Hindu same understood!

Unknown said...

Fucking Steve sailer was Rothschild stootage who posted this to divide Indians regionally. Rothschild family who owned East India company ruled india by divide and rule policy and made world's richest nation to poorest within 200 years .Just search how powerful this family with worth more than $500 trillion dollars which is stolen by many countries and from india. and world today is controlled by divide and rule policy by the Rothschild stootages and their own media. How india is influenced today by these basturds._____________________________________ Just Search @AJIT VADAKAYIL.

Unknown said...

Fucking Steve sailer was Rothschild stootage who posted this to divide Indians regionally. Rothschild family who owned East India company ruled india by divide and rule policy and made world's richest nation to poorest within 200 years .Just search how powerful this family with worth more than $500 trillion dollars which is stolen by many countries and from india. and world today is controlled by divide and rule policy by the Rothschild stootages and their own media. How india is influenced today by these basturds._____________________________________ Just Search @AJIT VADAKAYIL.

Unknown said...

Proud to be Indian and hindu. Hinduism is not at all supersticious.Especially chakras are truly seen with colours by Kirlian technology. Every hindu ritual such as yagnas at the time of performing shows shiva cosmic energy surrounding that yagna seen by this kirlian video camera.FUCK this Steve sailer type who's agenda is to divide indiansand know how to become intelligent. A2 milk of desi humped indian COW and it's products is the MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD on this planet which boosts health as well as intelligence.

Anonymous said...

You are a North Indian.But ur comment sounds Good.

Unknown said...

Intelligence don't need color nor race .it's their principles that make them smart

Anonymous said...

According to a very detailed survey 70% of the people getting admitted in IIT and IIM are from north.
South indians myth that they are intelligent is broken.
most are dumb and cannot even speak proper english.

Anonymous said...

as a whole, tamilans are very smart and geniuses. no denial in that. we simply are. no hard feelings please

Unknown said...

we are most intelligent people in the india
our district has given famous stars to india .....

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwit3Lfpyv7LAhXIJI4KHfkqAGgQFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmangalorespots.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffamous-mangalorean-stars.html&usg=AFQjCNGEk6_aXBLc6e0cUsEwpy7ektGTog

or
mangalorespots.blogspot.com/2008/09/famous-mangalorean-stars.html

Anonymous said...

Agreed that Tamilians are the worlds most intelligent people. Just kidding.

Anonymous said...

Out of a population of over a billion, simple statistics show that there will be a few of them with high IQ's. This coupled with a US government that has policies that favor non-white people over whites and you have had a large immigration to the United States of the smartest people of India. Americans have had the cream of India as immigrants, so therefore Americans think that all Indians are smart. The White citizens of Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand would disagree as they have had the typical low IQ Indians as immigrants. The typical Indian in Canada is a stupid thug that after five generations are still driving taxis and picking fruit. They have entered industries such as house construction and truck driving and have run both industries into the ground, with their dishonest business practices and low quality workmanship. Everything they touch turns to shit.

Anonymous said...

It is kannada,learn how the language is pronunced before making a comment here,otherwise you are an idiot

Anonymous said...

Everyone has been speaking here so much about north and south India. I am a north Indian who had to come to south india for studies due to my father's frequent transferrable job. I have studied in a college in south india and the teacher was teaching in the native language telugu. When I told him, I cant understand telugu and could you please teach in English, the reply I got from him is that most of the people here cannot understand english so I have to teach in Telugu. After this incident all the south indian guys were behind me. They thought that I am the most bold girl ever, where I actually just wanted to understand what the professor was teaching. The south indian girls are not bold at all. They do everything wrong behind curtains and show as if they are the most sanskaari girls ever. If a girl from north India comes and she stands up for herself, these people like slaves start following her. They make her their leader when she was just standing for herself. Now is it our fault that we know how to stand up for ourselves. If south indians can't do that then how can they be accountable for holding prominent positions which require quick and active decision making like our present prime minister Narendra Modi. Just sitting behind a CPU and not laughing for the whole of your life and not talking to anyone except people of only your region will not get you guys anywhere.
You people are not strong enough and are big flatterers. I am in USA, all the south indians that I see in my company are flatterers and when a north indian even eher stands up for himself, you guys start flattering the north indian also. You guys have no pride in your culture. You like following north Indian and consider it a pride to copy and be friends with them.
You all say you are very educated. Yes you produce the most educated unskilled engineers in India.
Absolutely true

Anonymous said...

Mr. Xyz..
Just go and see the mirror.. Before insulting south indians as you mentioned above

the right stuff said...

What a ridiculously stupid comment

the right stuff said...

Lol.. RAJNIKANT is a Maharashtrian you fool.. Lol. And I bet Amitabh Bachan is million times better looking than you. Tamilians could not find a tamilian to worship so they worship a north Indian from Maharashtra.. 😂

Dev (from Kerala) said...

As Humans, we have it easy when it comes to racial problems. Humans look very similar so the problem is not that big .Imagine the racial problems faced by fishes ! they come under a group but have 1000s of varieties with huge range of differences. some are small,some big and many fish eat other fish !!

S_nair said...

Being a malayalee myself can't help laughing at the above comment:)

Anonymous said...

The Africans are just good at steroid used running, the Olympics is mostly won by Chinese now in every sport that actually requires strength

Anonymous said...

People all here hate north indians because of their attitude towards south indians whom they treat as third class citizen. They always use MC slang world irrespective from all part of world theby degradrding them. Most angers against them stem when they visit south india and complaining that we dont speak hindi and calling all south indians as black. North indian occupie all top government post and soory that they dont have their intelligence to dominate DRDO or ISRO that shows them in poor light. North indians top being rasist because u are white skinned remember how u got payed back in australia.

Anonymous said...

All north Indians who are fond of wheatish, foods like chapatti, pls switch to easily digestible southindian type of food, like in tamil nadu,kerala, West bengal etc who were basically rice eaters. Rice is not making southerners brilliant, but rice is easily digestible food which don't obstruct evolution of intelligence in them ,in addition to this eat more foods rich in more omega 3 fatty acids like desi breed humped cow's- butter, ghee,milk, flaxseed oil, oily fish, etc which boots intelligence.
Eat only easily digestible homemade food, so that we can quickly increase our intelligence,less effort more gain in intelligence . If you seed lifestyle of extremely genious people around the world,they are humble, lovable at heart and are pure vegetarians, their food will be simple and easily digestible food .
And more important if you want to become genious, primarily we should eat easily digestible food, secondarily our effort is important. We should be more focussed towards learning with lovable heart, we should not be distracted to our surroundings to people who exhibit low vibrational emotions like anger, hatred,lust, ego, jealousy, fear, guilt, etc. Learning with lovable heart makes you genious.

Wheat has 'gluten' in it and which silences genes, and mostly north India is fond of those type foods, that blocks more sensitive areas of brain, so we don't see many genious northerners in science and technology,spirituality.

Anonymous said...

Hey,
Why not consider being just INDIAN and respect each and every aspect of it.

Anonymous said...

Sir,
Intelligence is not dependent on where you come from or what language you speak. Pls understand this. Also the people you have mentioned were successful not because the belonged to a particular culture or spoke a specific language. The were successful because the worked really hard and dedicated their whole life to their work. They had great dedication and discipline. Anyone with such traits NO MATTER WHERE HE COMES FROM can succeed in life.

Samantha y said...

And a smart person would say exactly that right..?

Unknown said...

F..k tamilians,
I see less iq,cannot speak hindi n English, ego,etc...

Anonymous said...

Your comment proofs that you are a stupid racist! Not smart!

Dravidian webnews said...

I am not trying to insult you but from research and study South Indians are smarter than North Indians due to the genetics. While the Northees came from Parts of Russia and Europe they are more beautiful than South Indians. South Indians are of African origin

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