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A glimpse of my life, travel notes, thoughts and more - Vinay Hinduja

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Location: Bombay / Pune, India

Influenced by Bandra, Bombay, London. Independent, Simple, Non conformist, Democratic, Logical, Open minded, a little artistic, Easy

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

'V' for Virus

After reading this, you will never ask me to suggest a name. I shall risk losing the pleasure anyways.

When my cousin was expecting her second child, her son asked me to suggest some names. The name had to start with the alphabet 'A', as per family tradition.

The next few hours, I suggested several neat, nice names starting with 'A'. Names which were meaningful, names which sounded nice with the family name, names with more 'a's thrown in, names with depth... But they were all rejected.

Ok, new constraint - The names should be 'Unique'.
No problem...So I suggested several rarely used names, lovely names...

Not acceptable - The name should be easy to remember and easy to pronounce.

By now I was bugged and wanted to bug. So I suggested even better names, names with more meaning and very unique, probably never used before, but yet accepted syntax. Even Microsoft word acknowledges most - aura, aroma, ample, adept... After all, how adept can a boy get?

Not 'A'cceptable.

Ok - Next constraint - the name should be Indian. So how about achaar, aampapad, akhrot, amrood, araam, akela, adbhut, ainak.

And today someone asked me for a name starting with 'V' and I burst out 'v' for 'virus'.