Years ago , I said "Whats in name ?" to a friend , and he replied "everything's in a name " else we won't have known its Shakespeare who said that . Now why I suddenly remember this is , my colleagues had formed some kind of project team and asked me to search /suggest a name for their team ( well my colleagues found me worthy of that only :P ) . One of them said like Transformer or Gladiator, you know Hollywood movies . I wanted to say "what do you think of Titanic." well I didn't as they would have taken away this task too :P. I thought for a while , "Does the name of project changes anything about it".
Does name really matter ? In quest of this question , I realised if not names "surnames" matter . Eg. "Gandhi" , If Sonia and Rahul won't have been "Gandhi" , we would not have been interested. Infact when I was in school, I spent considerable time thinking about which relative of Mahatma Gandhi , Indira Gandhi married. Only years later , thanks to internet and emails I realised , Indira "Gandhi" had no relation to M.K. Gandhi. "Thakeray" , if you are the one , you are suppose to say "Mi marathi" in every second line , and you get a berth of Yuva neta in Party. Then we have our own bollywood ruled by Kapoors, Khans and Chopras. And yeah I used to think Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor are be related :D .Taking it further , based on surnames we classify people as Hindu , Muslim or Christian. We divide them in castes , Brahmin , Kshatriya , Rajput etc.
You might get an oppurtunity owing to your surname ( read clout of surname) , it might define what you would do when you grow up, It does not guarantee success. Does anyone remember "Rajendra Kapoor ?" Also none of the Kapoors are yet as legendry as the Raj Kapoor himself . Similarly , having a Gandhi surname doesn't mean one has best at his heart for country. And therefore there are People who create their own identities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abdul Kalam ,Abraham Lincoln and Swami Vivekanand .
Not necessarily , if you name someone Amitabh , it would apply he would be a good orator or naming a kid Sachin will automatically make him a great player . Neither a project would doom , if named as "Titanic" (the movie was major blockbuster :)).Nor numerology adding extra Ks , As or any letters to any kind of work and person would change the quality of work content or a person !!!
well I did find good names for the team , few of them were inspired from Harry Potter series :) .
I guess name is what you make of it , good / bad or nothing .
Does name really matter ? In quest of this question , I realised if not names "surnames" matter . Eg. "Gandhi" , If Sonia and Rahul won't have been "Gandhi" , we would not have been interested. Infact when I was in school, I spent considerable time thinking about which relative of Mahatma Gandhi , Indira Gandhi married. Only years later , thanks to internet and emails I realised , Indira "Gandhi" had no relation to M.K. Gandhi. "Thakeray" , if you are the one , you are suppose to say "Mi marathi" in every second line , and you get a berth of Yuva neta in Party. Then we have our own bollywood ruled by Kapoors, Khans and Chopras. And yeah I used to think Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor are be related :D .Taking it further , based on surnames we classify people as Hindu , Muslim or Christian. We divide them in castes , Brahmin , Kshatriya , Rajput etc.
You might get an oppurtunity owing to your surname ( read clout of surname) , it might define what you would do when you grow up, It does not guarantee success. Does anyone remember "Rajendra Kapoor ?" Also none of the Kapoors are yet as legendry as the Raj Kapoor himself . Similarly , having a Gandhi surname doesn't mean one has best at his heart for country. And therefore there are People who create their own identities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abdul Kalam ,Abraham Lincoln and Swami Vivekanand .
Not necessarily , if you name someone Amitabh , it would apply he would be a good orator or naming a kid Sachin will automatically make him a great player . Neither a project would doom , if named as "Titanic" (the movie was major blockbuster :)).Nor numerology adding extra Ks , As or any letters to any kind of work and person would change the quality of work content or a person !!!
well I did find good names for the team , few of them were inspired from Harry Potter series :) .
I guess name is what you make of it , good / bad or nothing .
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