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Mama’s boys from MP to dominating Mallu women—North–South romances doomed by stereotypes

Food is a big battleground. 'His understanding of good food is tandoori momo floating in Afghani sauce,' a Malayali girlfriend said about her Chandigarh partner.

A Tamilian and a Punjabi walk into a bar. It’s their first date. The Punjabi mispronounces dosa. The Tamilian walks out before the drinks arrive. As much as I’d like to take credit, this isn’t a made-up story. Call it the North-South divide of India’s dating pool—it’s got to go now.

The country is fighting over the delimitation bill, and comedian Nirmal Pillai has proposed a solution. He wants all North-South couples to start pumping out babies—make an army of people so ethnically confused that they won’t know which state to fight for. Pillai is talking about something BR Ambedkar was promoting. Intermarriage. Fusion of blood—ending the caste and community segregation with love.

As it turns out, North–South romances aren’t quite the taboo they were in the 1980s. “I always say, North-South romance was the Love Jihad of the 70s, 80s. Unthinkable. By the 90s, thanks to reforms and the IT sector, it started to ease,” said a Tamil woman raised in Delhi. Then came Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States, which did its bit to........

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