If you ever happen to come to south India and you do not have any idea about the local language...you are sure to be haunted by the "Gulu Gulu" mystery...
Well Gulu Gulu is just a word to express a whole genre i am unable to express otherwise...Gulu Gulu is the only bell that rings in my mind when i encounter South Indian conversation or script.
Lets speak of the script first...
After loads of research i have been able to find visual differences between Tamil,Telegu and Malayalam...Though they all will appear same to you in the first appearence ( full of Gulu Gulu that is...circles and semicircles and concentric circles) but on careful examination they fail to decieve my divine vision...In Telegu the Gulu Gulus are seperate from each other...the words appear like Gulu Gulu Gulu Gulu....However in Malayalam the Gulus are very closely connected to each other making it GuluGuluGuluGuluGulu...Tamil is a combination of Right Angle and Gulu...and yeah dots also appear in between...
If we come to the speech...These languages have a peculiar tone...there are tips to grasp these tones...these remind me of my High School Chemistry classes where we had to add suffixes and prefixes to name different elements from the same chemical family...In Tamil you just have to add a suffix "a"( "a" as in Argentina ) in every word you speak...So tamil becomes tamila,Road
becomes Roada,Bus becomes Busa,Auto becomes Autoa ,Lefta,Righta, Straighta, Yesa, Noa and so on...The British left India after ruling her for 200 years because they were tired of hearing the same Britisha,Elizabetha,Queena,Londona,Independencea...???
For Telegu you have to add the prefix "u"...like Penu,Pencilu, Riceu,Dalu, Tableu,Chairu,Shirtu, Pantu ,Underwearu and on and on...
Anyways dont bother yourself with this "Gulu Gulu" mystery even if you come to South India sometime...just chill...even if you manage to learn a little bit ( like i ve done ) and say that to somebody , you wont understand his reply in a thousand lifetimes...!!!
Untill next time ... Gulu Gulu...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
The "Gulu Gulu" mystery is a hilarous piece of the truth every North Indian faces in the South.A must read article for outsiders living Chennai.
its g8 i think this a big prob. faced by every hindi speeking pepole.....
this wll be a g8 help to them..........
its g8 i think this a big prob. faced by every hindi speeking pepole.....
this wll be a g8 help to them..........
its really a great prob faced by every north indian..i mean to say who dont know these languages..this is a very interesting as well as funny article...
critisicm is not the end of everything..
although ur persuit of happiness in tamil nadu went in vain the frustration is seen crystal clear in the way u hav written.
the same gulugulu language is also evident in bengal and assam as well...the script also dosent differ much and looks something done in the pan in the morning...
anyways the perception differs from person to person..
but the humour was well scripted and incidences well written..
can improve.
soo true, but i fail to understand what exactly is "gulu" :(
awesome dude... sorry baba.
wow i liked it. i am from kerala and i think what u said is true.I remember my north indian dost used to sit and wonder when we talked in their local language.
Post a Comment