Comments on: What’s Not In A Name? http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/ "That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once, but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night— I don't know where it came from— in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." - Czeslaw Milosz, Borderlines. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Truman http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-451 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:10:54 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-451 :( :(

]]> by: Sneha http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-450 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:08:29 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-450 Bah! Actually at least these people from relatively poor communities openly express their feeling and in a weird way I want to say that it is -better- than killing her altogether. Someone I know really, got their baby killed or aborted or whatever those @#$#@ call it. Because they have a daughter already who by the way is the best little thing on earth. And these people well educated and filthy rich. Another thing, this might not be an entirely girl child thing, coz my uncle was called 'kachara' or something like that at home when he was a child. I think in villages where the child mortality rates are high, if a child has died they name their other childs something unwanted thinking that 'God' wont be interested in taking something like that away. They also sometimes do things like piercing the ears or nose of a boy child for example to make him imperfect, again for the same reason. Bah! Actually at least these people from relatively poor communities openly express their feeling and in a weird way I want to say that it is -better- than killing her altogether.

Someone I know really, got their baby killed or aborted or whatever those @#$#@ call it. Because they have a daughter already who by the way is the best little thing on earth. And these people well educated and filthy rich.

Another thing, this might not be an entirely girl child thing, coz my uncle was called ‘kachara’ or something like that at home when he was a child. I think in villages where the child mortality rates are high, if a child has died they name their other childs something unwanted thinking that ‘God’ wont be interested in taking something like that away. They also sometimes do things like piercing the ears or nose of a boy child for example to make him imperfect, again for the same reason.

]]> by: Apu http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-449 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:48:20 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-449 This broke my heart, somehow, even more than the foeticide and infanticide stories. What kind of world is it where people do this to their own innocent children? This broke my heart, somehow, even more than the foeticide and infanticide stories. What kind of world is it where people do this to their own innocent children?

]]> by: km http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-448 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:00:30 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2006/09/14/whats-not-in-a-name/#comment-448 Oh my. The parental love shineth through these people. Oh my. The parental love shineth through these people.

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