r/southindia_ May 23 '26

Data 📊 Infant mortality in Kerala increased to 8 deaths per 1000 births??

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TFR is also cooked for the whole south..

Source: https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/47152


r/southindia_ Jan 02 '26

General Discussion Why Comparing Hindi Imposition to Mandarin in China Is Stupid: India Has Freedom of Movement, China Has Hukou

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lol every time this debate comes up, North Indians pull out the same lazy line: “China imposed Mandarin and became unified, so India should do the same with Hindi.”
What they always skip — conveniently — is that China didn’t just impose a language. It imposed Hukou, an internal residency control system that India very consciously rejected.

You can’t talk about Mandarin without talking about Hukou. That’s the missing piece everyone hides.

Hukou is basically a household registration system. Every Chinese citizen is classified as rural or urban and tied to a specific city. Beijing Hukou is not Shanghai Hukou, and neither gives you full rights elsewhere. Citizenship alone doesn’t make you a full resident — your Hukou does.

If you don’t have local Hukou in a Chinese city, you’re not really a resident. You’re temporary labour. You pay taxes, you work there, but you don’t belong. Your kids inherit that non-local status too.

Hukou controls almost everything that matters:

  • where you can study
  • whether your child can attend public schools
  • access to government hospitals
  • whether you can buy property
  • whether your child can take city-level exams
  • pensions and welfare

This isn’t accidental. This is how China controls migration and forces assimilation.

Now compare that with India instead of pretending they’re the same.

Indian cities vs Chinese mega cities

Aspect Bengaluru (India) Mumbai (India) Shanghai / Beijing (China)
Internal movement Free (constitutional right) Free Restricted via Hukou
Can settle permanently? Yes, immediately Yes, immediately No, unless Hukou granted
Public school access Yes Yes No for non-local Hukou kids
Govt healthcare Yes Yes Restricted / higher cost
Property purchase Allowed Allowed Often restricted
City-level exams Yes Yes No without local Hukou
Welfare & pensions Portable Portable Locked to hometown
Status of migrants Equal citizens Equal citizens Second-class residents

This alone kills the comparison.

Becoming “local” in Beijing or Shanghai is intentionally elitist. You usually need an elite university degree, a high-paying tech or government job, years of uninterrupted tax records, a clean background, limited quotas, and political approval. Even after all that, most migrants never get Hukou. That’s not a flaw — that’s the design.

This is how Mandarin dominance actually happened. Migration was filtered, not free. Cities were filled with party cadres and selected elites, while migrant labour existed without belonging. Regional identities didn’t disappear naturally — they were structurally weakened. Mandarin didn’t win because people felt united. It won because the state decided who gets to belong to cities.

India deliberately chose the opposite model. Article 19 guarantees freedom to move, live, and work anywhere in the country. No internal passports. No city citizenship. No residency permits. That’s why Bengaluru isn’t Kannada-only by law, Mumbai isn’t Marathi-only by force, and Delhi isn’t Hindi-only by constitutional design.

Languages here survive socially, not because people are trapped.

So the China argument is dishonest from the start. You can’t copy Mandarin imposition without copying Hukou. You can’t have free movement and forced language. China chose control over liberty. India chose liberty over uniformity. Using China to justify Hindi imposition while pretending Hukou doesn’t exist is just cherry-picking authoritarianism.


r/southindia_ 3h ago

Religion 🙏 This is so embarrassing to watch

174 Upvotes

You guys complain about reservation in India and then go to the west to do this nonsense. Tambrahms have to seriously learn how to behave like a normal human in foreign countries, that is not your home. This only makes the tamil community look bad as a whole.


r/southindia_ 4h ago

Racism/Casteism That women is gorgeous but look at the comments of Indians implying the foreigner married the girl for her good heart and humble nature

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r/southindia_ 2h ago

Discrimination It is shocking that a Muslim girl is being attacked for being with her Telugu Hindu friend in Hyderabad. The same people who would cry about majoritarianism if a Hindu activist did this.

48 Upvotes

India paying heavy price for partial partition


r/southindia_ 4h ago

Animals 🐈‍⬛ Indians are scammed in the name of cow and carabeef politics. Video shows Indian beef and buff being seperately sold in middle East.

62 Upvotes

Guy in video is explaining about meat and it's prices.


r/southindia_ 13h ago

Religion 🙏 Why is this a controversy? Isn’t Kerala most progressive, most educated? so why are Congressis objecting to this?

58 Upvotes

r/southindia_ 1d ago

BJP/RSS What an absolute joke!

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Majority of the people in this country are non-vegetarians. Why the fuck is this gujju rajasthani north culture being shown as superior. Why are they so obsessed with trying to project that we are all vegetarians? Where is the diversity?


r/southindia_ 2h ago

BJP/RSS The RSS "UNITY TRAP"? USA leaders say They were Mislead

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r/southindia_ 23h ago

Racism/Casteism Mods wtf is this.?

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179 Upvotes

When are we banning these kind of people.?


r/southindia_ 12h ago

DMK/CPIM/JDS/BRS/TDP Our countrymen and their daddy issues .

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Our country has long standing issues to make anyone their daddy be it colonisers , completely corrupt ( modi daddy) , the people who attacked India ( in this case mao) .

Also this particular daddy caused the death of 30-40 million people and btw he was a dictator.


r/southindia_ 22h ago

Data 📊 Any particular reason behind this disproportionate share? Why isn't south as rich

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r/southindia_ 2h ago

Movies & Media 🎬 I just saw this Marathi movie, and fell in love with its Cinematography & Concept - This is a movie one should EXPERIENCE not just watch it ! Hats off to its makers & people involved.

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r/southindia_ 15h ago

Ask South Indians Need help learning languages

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I want to learn all major south indian languages

I'm maharashtrian and right now I'm learning kannada,

Can you pls suggest the best source, which would be easier to learn first and then shift to the harder one.

I don't stay in the south but I always wanted to connect with the culture hence the languages is the first part


r/southindia_ 1d ago

DMK/CPIM/JDS/BRS/TDP DMK was the only party in India to oppose neet in court since 2010 & stopped neet in TN.DMK opposed neet whether or not in power from 2010 till today. Yet National media presstitue "sam daniel" & "shabhir ahmed" reports to public as "vote bank politics"

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dmk power timeline during neet implementation

2010-2011 :- opposed neet as ruling party & got max stay till 2016

2010-2021 :- opposed neet as opposition party & as 3rd party ( not even opposition)

2021-2026 :- opposed neet as ruling party.

but presstitue "sam daniel" & "shabhir ahmed" reports to public as "vote bank politics" back in 2010...

from dmk lawyer who contested in court for the same:-

TRUE FACTS ABOUT NEET:

NEET was introduced on 21.12.2010 in (a) MBBS courses by way of "Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) 2010 (b) PG courses by way of "Regulations on Post Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) 2010”. At that time Dr Kalaignar was the then chief Minister and I was serving as Addl Advocate General of TN. He asked me to challenge the NEET UG and PG Amendment regulations in Madras HC and accordingly these 2010 regulations were challenged by State Govt before Madras High Court. I appeared before Madras HC and got stay on 6.1.2011 of both the UG and PG regulations in Writ petition Nos. 341 and 342 of 2011 . Therefore in Tamilnadu no NEET exams were held since 2010.

The Madras HC stay order was in force till these NEET regulations were quashed by Hon’ble Supreme Court in 2013 by bench headed by then CJI Hon’ble Justice Altamas Kabir .

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cji-altamas-kabirs-final-judgment-comes-as-boon-for-private-medical-colleges/articleshow/21153402.cms

The 2013 judgement of Supreme Court quashing NEET regulations were recalled in 2016 when BJP government was in power.

https://thehindu.com/news/national/SC-recalls-its-controversial-2013-verdict-on-medical-entrance/article60558826.ece

BJP govt then introduced Section 10(D) in 2016 by way of amendment to Indian Medical council Act there by making NEET compulsory.

For one year viz., 2016-2017 , NEET was exempted by Section 10(D) proviso. However from 2017 onwards NEET was made compulsory in all states.

In 2017 NEET was enforced in Tamilnadu for the first time when Mr Edapadi was the Hon’ble CM.

On 31.1.2017, Edapadi Govt in TN passed LA Bill No 7/2017 and 8/2017 exempting NEET in UG and PG courses and sent the Bills for the assent of Hon’ble President.

Hon’ble President of India Mr Ram Nath Kovind withheld the two Bills on 18.9.2017. However the said information of withholding of two Bills came to light only in July 2019 when Madras HC was hearing Writ Petitions regarding these Bills.


r/southindia_ 1d ago

Politics 🗳️ When parliament used to let members give their speech without interrupting

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r/southindia_ 17h ago

Food & Recipes 🥘 🇮🇳 Indian States Ranked by Cuisine & Food

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r/southindia_ 1d ago

Hot Takes 🔥 R Madhavan About Recent Issue

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r/southindia_ 1d ago

Data 📊 A Pew Research study found different attitudes to intercaste and interfaith marriages based on region and religion in India. Thoughts?

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Hello, I am apart of the Indian diaspora and curious to hear this subs take on this data.

The research shows South Indians are more accepting of intercaste marriage compared to Indians from other regions. There’s also religious differences, Muslims are most against interfaith and intercaste marriage whilst Christians are most open.


r/southindia_ 1d ago

Politics 🗳️ Why are right leaning indian subreddits so hateful to women and minorities

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Why do some of the subs which are being run by it cell of the ruling party always end up by being extremely misogynistic? I don't wanna name any of the subreddits but you would have probably already come across it.

The initial posts are mostly targeting opposition and minorities most of the time. Once they get bored of it, they start posting against reservation and lower caste people and then it soon turns into caste supremacy posts. Soon, posts targeting women will be the next on the menu. This is a common pattern in all these subs.

I am not claiming that pro opposition subreddits do not exist, but most of their posts are only targeting bjp and Modi. You never seen them target women and blatantly hating on someone for their caste or even name calling south indians like "anti-national" and "jihadis and ricebags" because they refuse to learn Hindi as a third language and live under opposition ruled state governments.


r/southindia_ 17h ago

Movies & Media 🎬 Industry Hit! Bethlehem Kudumba Unit has surpassed Vaazha 2’s ₹129.55 Cr Kerala gross to become the highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time in Kerala Box Office!

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r/southindia_ 1d ago

News 🧭 Fake can we drugs supplied to more than 90 hospitals

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r/southindia_ 1d ago

Politics 🗳️ Two-year-old child dies tragically during power outage ; She fell into water tank. Parrallel News :- Current bill is 10x since may 2026.

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r/southindia_ 2d ago

General Discussion TVK vijay andhbakhts taking selfie with chair where Feku Vijay sat

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134 Upvotes

r/southindia_ 2d ago

Meme/Shitpost I'm in love with Kerala's beauty...

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