Dear All At least we are not as notorious as the Malayalees in naming babies. Sidin Vadakut calls them as the world's most 'cruel' on this front. It has become a sort of style to make a synthetic hybrid of the name of the Mother and Father. I had a friend Jayant and his wife was Hema - they named their son Hemant. I could figure that out. What keeps me confused is names like ' SHEJEE ' , ' JEHU ' , ' SHUKAY ' , and the funniest name noted by Vadakut is a girl by name ' SHITTY ABRAHAM " ! We Tamilians are not that bad. But I figured it out when R. Chelleppan called himself ' R.C.PAN '. Yay Yem