What's in a name ?

Reading this article, i was reminded of a lame joke from the movie 12B, when Vivek says, "excuse me" the other foolish friend of his who is name-hunting, chooses 'Excuse me, thanni kondu va', 'Excuse me, blah blah...' and on and on.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=NLetter&id=f2e22148-cda9-4263-b9d1-24b7a9c74a8e&Headline=What%27s+in+a+name%3f


There was also this time when parents wanted their kid's name to be a combo of their names like, Nilima+ Harshit = Nihar, Veera + Nisha = Varsha etc. Had we followed this, we would have had only 2 names, Umar or Arunima kinds. I dont even know if the 1st one is a boy or girl's name, all i know is, its arabic. A friend of mine once asked for some name suggestions, and his only condition was "pera ketta chumma adhiranum", i had nothing to say but, "apo Sivaji nu vei".

I think for many a parents these days, naming the baby is a far bigger discussion and debate than to have a baby or not!

Talking about little A and our name hunt, it was all simplified - Srikrishna was already given to us. It was like our ears were being bombarded with that name from all around. To me, names like Arjun, Krishna, Vishnu never lose their fancy. All of the thatha,paatis, kollu thatha paatis, independently and unanimously mentioned "Krishnan-a" (its a krishna ?) when we said its a boy! It is very common and more cliched to address a new born as Krishna down south or even all over India. Added to it was when the paediatrician(a die-hard Cuddalorean and JIPMER alumni) , gave the tiny little one to AA & to me saying, "kutti krishnan porandurukkan" (little krishna is born), as if we didn't know =) Brannon and Rogers had already told us about it! And he uttered the same "kutti krishnan porandurukkan" when he showed the new born to his grand parents who were chanting "narayana, narayana, krishna, krishna" waiting outside the labor room. AA & I wanted a name with 'Sri' too, later, we started saying out names in alphabetical order and the very first name we both uttered, chose and liked, went well with Srikrishna, our jobs made easy, we said so be it and everyone liked it.