Kerala is a land of baffling paradoxes, odd habits and eerie tastes if one go by the mundane affairs of the people of this state. Typically Malayalee parents are over enthusiastic in naming their kids by stringing the first few alphabets of the names of husband and wife- no matter whether these names make any sense or not!
For instance a couple, Shalini and byju preferred to name their first born son as ‘shaby’, without ever considering the fact that it means dirty. Just imagine the plight of this luckless boy who is destined to carry this ‘dirty’ name all his life!
Yet another trend, which can be only seen among the parents of Kerala is picking up rhyming names for the babies. For instance girl children are customarily named something like Teena, Veena, and boys share the rhyming names Praveen, Pradeep and so on and so forth while a boy and gal can be named Renjith and Rejitha!
Names should be chosen with great care and love as these form an extension of our personalities. Kerala parents in their over anxiety to express their love for their kids often tend to forget this golden rule.
