In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted
dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many
other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as,
something unattractive like picchaiswami (alms or charity from god)
or vemban (one who is
Related:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/so-you-think-yo.html
Excerpt:
Our system for choosing presidents doesn't work very well. Voters are
woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on
whim
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huchamma - Mad woman
I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but
'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy.
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Alok
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Alok G. Singh [09/10/07 12:54 +0530]:
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huchamma - Mad woman
I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but
'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy.
And the thippeswami referred to a swami (holy man) in chitradurga
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted
dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many
other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as,
something unattractive like
On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007 12:47 pm, Gautam John wrote:
MIT Prof. Nicholas
Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child non-profit this month is coming out
with its first machines, designed with kids in poor countries in mind.
(See this story by my colleague, Steve Hamm, about OLPC's attempts to
jump-start
For all the criticism of the OLPC project, i personally think the
project is on to something. That it will probably fail at the
implementation stage is an entirely different story... However many of
the criticisms that the guy has in the article dont make sense...
Many moons ago a host of
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted
dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many
other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as,
something unattractive like
On 10/9/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Kerala during the days when untouchability was prevalent,
apparently kids born in lower castes would be taken to the local
upper-caste overlord (usually the one from whom the dad would have
leased land for farming) who would name
Not really (Shockwave Rider it's not). And it's from 20070410, a blast from
the past.
20071004 not 20070410 :-)
Cheers,
Aditya
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Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)
Dark days ahead in Mordor, for the content cartel (I hope).
Interesting things have come together in the last few days. Two of
the biggest bands around dump their labels very publicly.
Radiohead: http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex2.html
Radiohead have made a new album.
So
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