i am an air force kid and my name has stubbornly remained Yeddanapudi Radhika where Yeddanapudi is the village we hail from;-)
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote: > There have been tons of Appaiahs at Cottons, but none are related (to the > best of my knowledge :-). Appaiah, though (like all other Coorg names) is a > given name, and not a surname. The 'traditional' Coorg naming system is AB > Name, where A is the 'Family' name, B is your dad's name, and Name is the > given name. > Hence, a PB Bopanna and a PB Chengappa are likely to be brothers, but PB > Bopanna and MD Bopanna are as likely to be related as a Ravi Jain and a > Ravi > Kumar. > > This naming system is pretty common across South India, with the number of > initials varying, and denoting village, father's name, etc. > > In my case, though, I'm an army kid, and my early years were in North > India, > where the schools followed a First Name Last Name system (especially with > admission forms, etc), and so my dad's name ended up as my surname. > > This is becoming more common now among Coorgs, and even among South Indians > in general. > > -Lahar > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Dave Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > My alumni listing has Infosys, Wipro, National Law School and Bishop > > > Cottons > > > Bangalore. > > > > > > > > A fellow Cottonian! And another in the long list of Appaiahs to attend > > Cottons (though it is a common name I suppose). > > > > DK (ISC/ICSE from BCBS in '89/'87 and yes, I was on the quiz team) > > >
