1. Your politicians are better at histrionics than your actors.

2. You look around for a "pure vegetarian hotel" as soon as you hit a new town.

3. You ask the bellboy to bring The Hindu.

4. Vastu determines where you stand, sit, sleep, cook and wash.

5. You are born to an amma, make your wife an amma, vote for amma and pray to amma.

6. You decorate your forehead and the front of your house every morning.

7. Your forehead smells of an incense stick and your house of sambhar and rasam.

8. Coconut thrives in your compound, kitchen and hair.

9. You know that the best biryani is curd rice.

10. You think that the best cutlery available are your fingers.

11. You are a world-class athlete, play world-class chess and tennis and sketch cartoons for the rest of India.

12. Khushwant Singh was the only sardarji whose name you knew, till BSNL Chairman Prithipal Singh came along.

13. You are familiar with the phrase adjust maadi.

14. Your north Indian colleagues call you a Madrasi even though your home is 1000 km from Chennai.

15. You think Vande Mataram was written and its music composed by AR. Rahman.

16. You have no surname to flaunt but a plethora of initials.

17. You can speak to the President in his language.

Source : INDIA TODAY :: SIMPLY SOUTH
Website : www.indiatoday.com
October - December, 2003