Thursday, March 16, 2006

Naming Conventions - who named all these places

I was watching the news channel (one of the many I have tuned on my TV), my wife hates me for watching the news channel whenever am in front of the TV, I somehow feel the news channels are more entertaining than any other entertainment channel.

A lady was reporting some news and while signing off she said her name and the place she was in, it made me think when was the last time a place has got its name, I mean other than those satellite towns which are created within a particular town to create a township (which are already well known).

I was born in Bangalore, in the place called Maruthinagar, which is adjacent to Madivala, Adugodi, Tavarekere, Suddaguntepalya and so on, it made me think since my birth all these places have those names and I think my father also remembers them since his childhood (Not taking into account those places which are renamed just to give that 'sense of owning' feeling).

Is there any place wherein people live and do not have a name for that place and are still strugling to find a name, when was the last time humankind found a place that did not have a name and still had people living!!!!! - does'nt it mean that the world has always been properly organised even before the invent of computer and other hi-fi gadgets?

Whats in a name, an apple if called as rose, does it loose its taste? NO, but it defnitely loses it charm

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