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Where in India are most Indian posters from?

Where in India are most Indian posters from?

  • North India- Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP, Himachal, Uttrakhand, J& K, Ladakh, Delhi, Chandigarh

    Votes: 10 38.5%

  • South India - Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry

    Votes: 10 38.5%

  • Eastern India - Bihar, Jharkand , Orissa, West Bengal

    Votes: 1 3.8%

  • Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • North East India - Seven States + Sikkim

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • Western India - Mumbai/ Maharashtra, Gujrat and Goa.

    Votes: 1 3.8%

  • Islands - Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicorbar

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    26
Giannis

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I'm curious what region most of our Indian friends on PP are from. I'd assume the north but there seems to be a strong contingent from the south as well, feel free to name your state.


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  • North India (Punjab & neighboring states)
  • South India
  • Bengal
  • Gujarat
  • UP/Bihar
  • Mumbai/western India
  • Eastern India
 
Interesting to see so many Indians from the north east. North east for me has always been an exotic region and if there's one region that's on my bucket list of places to visit in India, it's the north east + Sikkim.

It's crazy that we know very little about north eastern cuisine. South Indian cuisine is nowadays found all over India and there's no shortage of restaurants catering north Indian cuisine anywhere in India, but we know very little about north east Indian dishes. Even Tibetan cuisine like Momos and Thukpa are popular everywhere in India, but north eastern cuisine not as much. It needs to be publicised more in India.
 
Poll added - please cast your votes in it.
 
street cricketer said:
Interesting to see so many Indians from the north east. North east for me has always been an exotic region and if there's one region that's on my bucket list of places to visit in India, it's the north east + Sikkim.

It's crazy that we know very little about north eastern cuisine. South Indian cuisine is nowadays found all over India and there's no shortage of restaurants catering north Indian cuisine anywhere in India, but we know very little about north east Indian dishes. Even Tibetan cuisine like Momos and Thukpa are popular everywhere in India, but north eastern cuisine not as much. It needs to be publicised more in India.
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Visit Northeast to know northeast. You wouldn't find about us in any mainstream media or history books. Be ready for some culture shock.
 
Hitman said:
I visited Hyderabad as a 9 year old kid. Loved it. Want to visit again someday. Want to visit the Salar Jung Museum again.
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Salar Jung museum, golconda fort, charminar, film city. Lots of places to visit. Had overdoses of Biryani, keema, kebabs. Will definitelt visit again.
 
Giannis said:
I'm curious what region most of our Indian friends on PP are from. I'd assume the north but there seems to be a strong contingent from the south as well, feel free to name your state.


Options

  • North India (Punjab & neighboring states)
  • South India
  • Bengal
  • Gujarat
  • UP/Bihar
  • Mumbai/western India
  • Eastern India
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Gujarat will be included in western India along with Maharashtra.

Bengal is a part of eastern India along with Orissa and Bihar while UP should be included as a part of north india.

Basically there is north India, south India, central India (pretty much MP and Chattisgarh), eastern India, western India and north east India.
 
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street cricketer said:
Gujarat will be included in western India along with Maharashtra.

Bengal is a part of eastern India along with Orissa and Bihar while UP should be included as a part of north india.

Basically there is north India, south India, central India (pretty much MP and Chattisgarh), eastern India, western India and north east India.
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Please suggest the right options for this poll
 
North India - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Delhi , UP, Himachal, Uttrakhand, Jammu and Kashmir.

South India - Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Eastern India - Bihar, Jharkand , Orissa, West Bengal

Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh

North East India - Seven States + Sikkim

Western India - Mumbai/ Maharashtra, Gujrat and Goa.
 
liam26 said:
North India - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Delhi , UP, Himachal, Uttrakhand, Jammu and Kashmir.

South India - Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Eastern India - Bihar, Jharkand , Orissa, West Bengal

Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh

North East India - Seven States + Sikkim

Western India - Mumbai/ Maharashtra, Gujrat and Goa.
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[MENTION=93712]MenInG[/MENTION] This is a better post explaining the different zones of India.
 
street cricketer said:
North India
South India
Western India
Eastern India
North east India
Central India
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liam26 said:
North India - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Delhi , UP, Himachal, Uttrakhand, Jammu and Kashmir.

South India - Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Eastern India - Bihar, Jharkand , Orissa, West Bengal

Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh

North East India - Seven States + Sikkim

Western India - Mumbai/ Maharashtra, Gujrat and Goa.
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Wow so many divisions. Yet in most of topics , discussions and comments we only see North India and South India being mentioned no east or west. And thought Gujrat due to Modi and Mumbai due to Bollywood are typical Hindi North Indian states.
 
boomboomcheema said:
Wow so many divisions. Yet in most of topics , discussions and comments we only see North India and South India being mentioned no east or west. And thought Gujrat due to Modi and Mumbai due to Bollywood are typical Hindi North Indian states.
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Yes. Those are the main divisions. Across those divisions, the social construct, cuisine, culture everything is very different. That's why it is hard to generalize anything about India across the nation.
 
boomboomcheema said:
Wow so many divisions. Yet in most of topics , discussions and comments we only see North India and South India being mentioned no east or west. And thought Gujrat due to Modi and Mumbai due to Bollywood are typical Hindi North Indian states.
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Gujarat and Maharashtra (mumbai is the capital of Mah.) are Western Indian States.
Mumbai is known famously for bollywood but it is much more famous for being the financial capital of India, for being the largest city in India and has BCCI and Stock Markets of India of India too.
 
liam26 said:
North India - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Delhi , UP, Himachal, Uttrakhand, Jammu and Kashmir.

South India - Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Eastern India - Bihar, Jharkand , Orissa, West Bengal

Central India - Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh

North East India - Seven States + Sikkim

Western India - Mumbai/ Maharashtra, Gujrat and Goa.
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Thank you. have rectified the poll options.

Posters - Do the poll and do add posts about your state/UT to the thread
 
I am from Mumbai but have worked in almost all parts of India (N,E,W,S) and have travelled extensively as tourist to other places.

Would be covering NE states (prolly next month) and Andaman next year.
 
OMB said:
I am from Mumbai but have worked in almost all parts of India (N,E,W,S) and have travelled extensively as tourist to other places.

Would be covering NE states (prolly next month) and Andaman next year.
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Covid peak is going on in NE especially Assam. Be careful a bit.
 
Kaizoku said:
Visit Northeast to know northeast. You wouldn't find about us in any mainstream media or history books. Be ready for some culture shock.
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Is that because North East indians have much less in common with the rest of the indians?

I ve come across a few NE indians in Germany and couldn’t honestly distinguish them (visually) from Chinese or may be vietnamese. I was actually shocked when some of them started conversation in Hindi with other indians.
 
street cricketer said:
Gujarat will be included in western India along with Maharashtra.

Bengal is a part of eastern India along with Orissa and Bihar while UP should be included as a part of north india.

Basically there is north India, south India, central India (pretty much MP and Chattisgarh), eastern India, western India and north east India.
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Aren’t MP and Chattisgarh much like the neighbouring UP?

Reason i ask is that that these are part of Hindi belt and i believe culturally similar to the neighbouring UP. So shouldnt these just be included in North India (bar some parts of western MP, which may ve more commonality with Maharashtar).

We have some famous Urdu poets & writers from Bhopal and Gawalior.
 
Bi_Jamalo said:
Is that because North East indians have much less in common with the rest of the indians?

I ve come across a few NE indians in Germany and couldn’t honestly distinguish them (visually) from Chinese or may be vietnamese. I was actually shocked when some of them started conversation in Hindi with other indians.
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Nope. North east India is itself subdivided in to various categories. The whole social structure is very different from Assam with that of Nagaland or manipur or mizoram or arunachal.

You'll find different phenotype across north east. But historically, north east India was always close to then India.
 
Bi_Jamalo said:
Aren’t MP and Chattisgarh much like the neighbouring UP?

Reason i ask is that that these are part of Hindi belt and i believe culturally similar to the neighbouring UP. So shouldnt these just be included in North India (bar some parts of western MP, which may ve more commonality with Maharashtar).

We have some famous Urdu poets & writers from Bhopal and Gawalior.
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My classification was merely a geographical classification.

Culturally, you are right. MP and Chattisgarh are very much "north indian" in nature. Culturally, I guess there are just three blocs in India - north India, south India and north eastern India.
 
street cricketer said:
My classification was merely a geographical classification.

Culturally, you are right. MP and Chattisgarh are very much "north indian" in nature. Culturally, I guess there are just three blocs in India - north India, south India and north eastern India.
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It’s more cultural than geographical. Pre partition Maharashtra and Orissa were more or less considered to be South as well because west would be as it goes towards Karachi-Sindh and Bangladesh would kind of expand that east zone. There are districts of Maharashtra that speak Kannada or Telugu in some districts of Orissa. India is very tough to pinpoint geographically as well.
 
KingKhanWC said:
I thought there would be more punjabis. Nice to see where posters are from. We also have a couple of Indians who live in Peshawar I believe.
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Those are not indians but Pakistani sikhs.

Though there are some indians living in Afghanistan but not sure for how much longer…
 
Bi_Jamalo said:
Those are not indians but Pakistani sikhs.

Though there are some indians living in Afghanistan but not sure for how much longer…
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Do you mean Hindus in Afghanistan or actual Indians living there for work, business or whatever reason?
 
Hitman said:
HaHa ..... no man! People in Assam have always been crazy about cricket, damn crazy.
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But Assam is the state that's comparatively most similar to mainland Indian culture than the rest, isn't it...

How many of the other states like cricket though. Isn't football their main sport there?
 
I have two co-worker from Ludhiana , we speak Punjabi among us, their Punjabi accent is a bit weird to me, similar to the people from Faisalabad, wondering any connection.
 
Bi_Jamalo said:
Is that because North East indians have much less in common with the rest of the indians?

I ve come across a few NE indians in Germany and couldn’t honestly distinguish them (visually) from Chinese or may be vietnamese. I was actually shocked when some of them started conversation in Hindi with other indians.
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You will probably mistake me for some common Asian dude.
 
Itachi said:
demow is in Sivasagar. Same name in dhemaji too? (haven't gone to dhemaji yet).
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You should visit once the situation normalises. It shares border with Arunachal. You would definitely fall in love with the place.
 
Grew up in North India( UP), moved to Cape Town for 3 years, and staying in Bangalore from last 5 years.
 
Ab Fan said:
Grew up in North India( UP), moved to Cape Town for 3 years, and staying in Bangalore from last 5 years.
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So you got your affinity for SA cricket and of course AB while being in Cape Town!
 
Due to privacy issues, i cannot reveal my whereabouts details.
 
What are some best places to visit in northeast India?

Before Covid I have visited many temples across TN, also visited Nashik, Trayambhakeshwar, Shiridi, Trivendram and Kochi.

I will plan to visit after few months, I really want to explore some temples and tourists spots in NE India.
 
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