{"id":867,"date":"2005-01-02T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=867"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:29","slug":"a_baby_with_any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/02\/a_baby_with_any\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baby with any other name would smell as sweet."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my most popular blog posts<\/a> ever<\/em> dealt with the…um…”unique” names that Malayalee parents bestow on their helpless offspring. Most bloggers get a large number of hits via Google searches for all sorts of random things; HERstory<\/a> is visited daily by people who wish to marvel at the ad hoc list of contrived and tortured nomenclature I compiled during one ennui-laced jaunt through Friendster.<\/p>\n\n

I think I might have to amend the list:<\/p>\n\n

Tsunamis are associated with death and destruction. But that has not stopped a couple in Kerala’s Alappuzha district from naming their new-born baby girl after the killer waves. <\/blockquote>\n\n
Kutten and Priyanka of Valiyazheekal in the district, where several people have been killed by the disaster, named their child Tsunami following her miraculous escape from the killer waves. <\/blockquote>\n\n
Priyanka and her daughter were rescued by a relative.<\/blockquote>\n\n

I have no words.<\/p>\n\n

Okay, that’s a lie. I have a few. I guess they can call her…”Tsu”? As a nickname?<\/p>\n\n

Oh, it’s all so wrong…<\/p>\n\n

Via Rediff<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

:+:<\/p>\n\n

Update!<\/i><\/p>\n\n

Sepia Mutiny reader “JK” points us to an article<\/a> where “Kutten”, Baby Tsunami’s father, states that he did nothing as foolish as naming his kid after the worst natural disaster in years. Apparently the kid is named “Nakshatra”. So Baby Nakshatra’s Daddy didn’t do it, got that? Yeah, me neither. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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