My Name Is ???????

Nomenclature Story: Part I

Do u know what my mother wanted to name me as ??? …

Rajavardhan is the answer .

How does it sound… Rajavardhan… Raja..vardhan…Rajavardhan….

Is that okay….will that go with me ? Lets replace ‘ kranthi ’ with ‘ rajavardhan ’ and see the results…
A friend who is not that familiar will call me “ hi rajavardhan ” “ lunch ayindaa rajavardhan” “ rajavardhan…. okasari itu raa” “ bye rajavardhan” …uuuuuuuhh!!!! Koncham (koncham enti chaalaa!!! ) different gaa vundi kada….either that name is TOO BIG for me(kranthi) or ...am TOO SMALL to carry that name….
Vardhan…Rajavardhan a la Bond….James Bond… :P baaprey!!!!…chala kashtam...chala chaaaaaaaaaala kashtam.

Actually….my mother’s name is Rajeshwari and my father’s is Govardhan.. Now u can easily figure it out why I was supposed to be ‘Rajavardhan’. And here goes a small story connected to this issue….Once upon a time…over ayindikada…. ok…..coming back to normalcy…….so when I was born…my dearest mother thought of offsetting the second half of her name and first half of my father’s name…. .and combining the suffixes and prefixes formed…..thereby coining a name Rajavardhan.

Offset(Rajeshwari) ----> raj (= raja) *equation 1
Offset(govardhan) -----> vardhan *equation 2

Adding both equations :

Rajeshwari + Govardhan -----> RAJAVARDHAN

When I was narrated this story by my mother…I could not help laughing. Looking at me…even she started laughing. After the amusement subsided…I thought about the name . Rajavardhan…. Rajavardhan….Rajavardhan….. I started playing with the permutations of combinations. Excerpts from thought-process ;-) :
”if I were Rajavardhan……how would I be called….raj or raja or vardhan...Just Raj sounds too stylish which i am not . Just Raja is cool, gives an impression of a telugu boy….and I can be called….. rajagaadu.. arey raja.. orey raju. Or just Vardhan. Vardhan is fine …as it connotes…like…some strong personality…thinking personality…it goes with this generation …and a lot more….( I’m NOT saying that I have those qualities .I feel Vardhan has that weightiness.) “
Then I combined raja and vardhan to rajavardhan..it didnt sound that good as amalgam..

I thanked my mother for not labeling me so. And I thanked my peddha mamaiah(he’s no more) for giving “kranthi’ to me. Sagacity. Commendable.

Nomenclature Story : Part II

The flip side of the story :

I like it. Rajavardhan…. a name… not formed looking at raasi or nakshatras …. not formed out of fancy. …not formed by doing a serious-thought-process-of-naming-the-first-child… not the name of my parents’ grandfathers.

Its “A proper noun formed from the names of my dear parents”.

My mother just thought of naming me that way and it shows how much they love each other. And it would have been wonderful to have both of them in my name..

bye….
yours,
Rajavardhan…err….sorry…Kranthi ;-)