State of scientific literacy in india

[CanadianMalodu]

On 4/13/2025 at 3:22 AM, Teluguredu said:

 

Speaks languages from the same family.

Population mostly from a single base,similar genetic composition 

All the languages in india were heavily influenced by Sanskrit for a long time now. "Tamil" exceptionalists started alienating Sanskrit words in Tamil in order to make it sound "pure Tamil". 

Telugu has had a huge Sanskrit influence for a long time as well. Telugu in Telangana has had Dakhni influence for so long that most of the Andhra people can't even understand it completely. 

All four southern languages have been split into four distinct languages with distinct written script and distinct pronunciations. 

You could search for similarities between different cultures in India as a whole too. 

[aratipandu]

55 minutes ago, CanadianMalodu said:

All the languages in india were heavily influenced by Sanskrit for a long time now. "Tamil" exceptionalists started alienating Sanskrit words in Tamil order to make it sound "pure Tamil". 

Telugu has had a huge Sanskrit influence for a long time now. Telugu in Telangana has had Dakhni influence for so long that most of the Andhra people can't even understand it completely. 

All four southern languages have been split into four distinct languages with distinct written script and distinct pronunciations. 

You could search for similarities between different cultures in India as a whole too. 

Karunanidhi, jayalalitha etc are beautiful Sanksrit names...

[CanadianMalodu]

25 minutes ago, aratipandu said:

Karunanidhi, jayalalitha etc are beautiful Sanksrit names...

Yes, that's right. Periyarists and Dravidian ideologues somehow overlook that part.

[aratipandu]

11 minutes ago, CanadianMalodu said:

Yes, that's right. Periyarists and Dravidian ideologues somehow overlook that part.

haha..they don't overlook, they give their kids stupid names like "Stalin" to compensate

[Teluguredu]

8 hours ago, CanadianMalodu said:

All the languages in india were heavily influenced by Sanskrit for a long time now. "Tamil" exceptionalists started alienating Sanskrit words in Tamil in order to make it sound "pure Tamil". 

Telugu has had a huge Sanskrit influence for a long time as well. Telugu in Telangana has had Dakhni influence for so long that most of the Andhra people can't even understand it completely. 

All four southern languages have been split into four distinct languages with distinct written script and distinct pronunciations. 

You could search for similarities between different cultures in India as a whole too. 

Sanskrit is not present much in spoken telugu ,most of the sanskrit in spoken telugu is either loan words from dravidian taken to sanskrit and exported back as sanskrit words or they have entered telugu very recently due to media and formal telugu being available abundantly .

Sanskrit has infiltrated telugu literature because most of it was written by Brahmins.

If you look at telugu used by migrants to T.N whose language was fossilised at the time they migrated to T.N ,they barely have any sanskrit words at all.

what if there are similarities between other states? That's not relevant to us.

[Teluguredu]

7 hours ago, aratipandu said:

Karunanidhi, jayalalitha etc are beautiful Sanksrit names...

Almost all surnames will be pure telugu tamil.

First names have sanskrit in them because of religion ,even many christians have telugu surnames plus Christian names. 

 

[aratipandu]

20 minutes ago, Teluguredu said:

Almost all surnames will be pure telugu tamil.

First names have sanskrit in them because of religion ,even many christians have telugu surnames plus Christian names. 

 

Tamil people have surnames? I don't think so...they mostly use father/husband names as last name...some of them use caste name like iyer, mudhaliar, chettiar etc

[Teluguredu]

1 hour ago, aratipandu said:

Tamil people have surnames? I don't think so...they mostly use father/husband names as last name...some of them use caste name like iyer, mudhaliar, chettiar etc

They used to have caste names ,but got banned .

But most of them again are pure tamil ,same with telugu and kannada surnames.

[aratipandu]

13 minutes ago, Teluguredu said:

They used to have caste names ,but got banned .

But most of them again are pure tamil ,same with telugu and kannada surnames.

Banned by who? DMK?

Lot of Tamils still use their caste names like I mentioned earlier but never heard of them having surname concept.

[jpismahatma]

Hola comrades. We don’t see black in our bottom. 

[Teluguredu]

1 hour ago, aratipandu said:

Banned by who? DMK?

Lot of Tamils still use their caste names like I mentioned earlier but never heard of them having surname concept.

Yeah DMK banned it.

Mostly Brahmins use caste names very rare in other castes.

 

[aratipandu]

8 minutes ago, Teluguredu said:

Yeah DMK banned it.

Mostly Brahmins use caste names very rare in other castes.

 

not really, lot of non-brahmins use caste names in Tamil Nadu...

you can use whatever name you want, nobody can ban it...

[CanadianMalodu]

2 hours ago, Teluguredu said:

They used to have caste names ,but got banned .

But most of them again are pure tamil ,same with telugu and kannada surnames.

There is no official ban at all. Tamils still use Caste names. Caste groupings are very common in Tamil Nadu, much like Andhra. Across political lines you will see groupings in highschools, colleges on caste lines like Gounders, Thevars, Vanniyars, Mudaliars, so on.

[lollilolli2020]

20 minutes ago, CanadianMalodu said:

There is no official ban at all. Tamils still use Caste names. Caste groupings are very common in Tamil Nadu, much like Andhra. Across political lines you will see groupings in highschools, colleges on caste lines like Gounders, Thevars, Vanniyars, Mudaliars, so on.

how damils are different than pan parag batch if they have caste hierarchy. damils are different than pan parag bimaru batch kada ani adagadalchukunna.  

[CanadianMalodu]

Just now, lollilolli2020 said:

how damils are different than pan parag batch if they have caste hierarchy. damils are different than pan parag bimaru batch kada ani adagadalchukunna.  

They're "Tamil" da🥷🏻🥷🏻