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**9mm_fan** · 07-11-2012, 10:16 PM

In olden days the names of the paternal grandparents & great grand parents were kept...The name was traditional, long (Siva Ram Subramanian, Anantha RamaKrishnan) and was associated with Hindu Gods & Goddesses...

Some added their village names to it (like Melattur V. Rajagopalan)...

However the practice of calling by the nick name which is a form of shortened(abbreviated) name was pretty strong...No one knew Swaminathan but only as Sama...Viswanathan as Visu, Venkatraman as Venkitti....Krishnamurthy as Kittu or kichu...Vaidyanathan as Vaidy...The nick name starts from the parents & spreads to relatives and friends

Sometimes the nick name was given by the village folks...My grand father was known in his village not by his name, surname or abbreviated name...He was called as Thoppukkara Mama as he owned lot of Thoppu...

Some were identified by their profession such as Vakil or Doctor also....

Now we have names decided based on numerology, birth star, father/mother first name, flower, weather etc...Most of these are Sanskrit secular names...We are aping the North in this

Short & crisp is the new credo.

07-11-2012, 10:16 PM	#11
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 53 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	In olden days the names of the paternal grandparents & great grand parents were kept...The name was traditional, long (Siva Ram Subramanian, Anantha RamaKrishnan) and was associated with Hindu Gods & Goddesses... Some added their village names to it (like Melattur V. Rajagopalan)... However the practice of calling by the nick name which is a form of shortened(abbreviated) name was pretty strong...No one knew Swaminathan but only as Sama...Viswanathan as Visu, Venkatraman as Venkitti....Krishnamurthy as Kittu or kichu...Vaidyanathan as Vaidy...The nick name starts from the parents & spreads to relatives and friends Sometimes the nick name was given by the village folks...My grand father was known in his village not by his name, surname or abbreviated name...He was called as Thoppukkara Mama as he owned lot of Thoppu... Some were identified by their profession such as Vakil or Doctor also.... Now we have names decided based on numerology, birth star, father/mother first name, flower, weather etc...Most of these are Sanskrit secular names...We are aping the North in this Short & crisp is the new credo.
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