A South Indian mutters

I have come across a lot of people, a few from my college and a few from my office, who think or believe that 'South India' is a State just like Bihar or Jharkhand or UP or Gujarat. Sadly, most of these people are well educated.

Somebody : “Where are you from?”
Me : “Pondicherry”
Smbdy : “Wooaaw! That is a nice place, really cooool”
Me : “hmm...yeah”
Smbdy : “By the way, where is this Pondicherry? It is an island, right?”
Me : (with a smile that says 'here you go...not again...' ) “No no no...it is not.”
Smbdy : “It isn't?!”
Me : “It isn't. It is neither an island nor a hill station. It is 150 kilometers south of Chennai on the coast”
Smbdy : “How do you go to Pondicherry?”
Me : “I go to Chennai and by bus from there”
Smbdy : “They speak Telugu there, right?”

…....and a bunch of questions like that. And I patiently answer all the questions, gradually clarifying all doubts about Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, South India, South Indian languages, etc... No kidding, this has happened to me over a hundred times.

For all those who think South India is a single state and all South Indians speak one single language, for your information, I present you some facts about South India.

1. South India is not a single state.
2. South India is not Andhra; no, definitely not.
3. When somebody is from South, he's not necessarily from Andhra.
4. There is no language called 'South Indian' and Telugu is not the only South Indian language.
5. When somebody says he's a South Indian, he does not necessarily speak Telugu.
6. There are four States and an Union Territory collectively considered as South India.
7. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka are the four states.
8. Similarly there are four major languages spoken by the people in South India.
9. Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada respectively.
10. And FYI, the four languages are distinct.
11. All South Indian movies are not Telugu movies.
12. Rajnikant is not the only South Indian actor.

For more interesting facts about South India, go through primary school geography and history books.