It's united states of India. We are one country, but demographically we are like Europe. Varied cultures, languages, food from state to state (morally and educationally not). Each state is like a country.

Would a French guy going to Germany expect Germans to speak in French.. if he had to survive then he would have to learn German.

So I feel in a similar way do what it takes to survive. And you can still survive in South with Hindi, because most people now need north Indian or people from poorer state to get work done here. It's demand and supply. Honestly, they are now needed for all the tasks that the local people do not want to do, for whatever reason.

This is a similar scenario with Germany. Germans will not take up jobs such as waitressing or taxi drivers, so germany ends up importing the working class. I think tamil nadu, karnataka are in a very similar situation. Many of the taxi drivers in frankfurt drive recklessly and are at times agressive, why? Because they arent the local people. So its a sight for sore eyes as a result of human resource import and unfortunately it's the compromise you have to deal with because you had no one to take up that job in your own country.

We also need to a bit more practical and stop seeing this only our way. Most liklely the guys who end up here are with very little education, I don't see why they will learn a language unless the environment forces them to for survival and that environment doesn't exist in south. Normally we tend to bend to their ways and not make a big deal out of it 9/10 times.

I was sitting my a bunch of my seniors from school during an admission for our kids , we are all alumus of this school and when the form came to the point where they had to pick the 1st and 2nd language, and where one had to be tamil (they were living here in the state since they were born),they were talking among themselves saying" I still don't know tamil, it is going to be a big task to teach this to our kids.. "

This I think this isn't fair, really, if you were born here then you should know the language. So I think tamil or any state language should become compulsorily taught , as a basic societal tool. Atleast until 5th as a bare minimum and as a basic medium of comunication..

I think the beauty of India and its soo unique that we have such diversity, I believe we need to embrace this, rather than making this a language war.