With all the furor last week over Eliot Spitzer’s indiscretions and Geraldine Ferraro’s comments, another piece of news went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media. That was the comment made by Representative Steve King of Iowa who said that if Barack Obama was elected president, there would be “dancing in the streets of the Islamic world” because of his middle name, Hussein.
Monday, March 17, 2008
End of the Monarchy
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Pithy and brilliant. How many people know what your name means, by the way? :)
I like to think that I have "double indemnity" in the after life. My surname, Prabhu, means "creator; powerful" in Hindi and here I am being spun like a yo-yo on my daughter's pinky finger! My given first name - which the initial "M" stands for - is Madhav - and I am named after my paternal grandfather, like my son, Krishna, who is named after my late father - in our family the eldest son of the eldest son has been given his grandfather's name for a few generations. And both Krishna and Madhav are "avatars" of Lord Vishnu, The Preserver. I can only hope that my parents repented when they disciplined me as a child. I was much nicer to my son - I cursed him in limited Turkish that was taught to me by a former bridge partner until one day he went to play at a Turkish neighbor's house and all hell broke loose when he started blabbering his father's colorful lexicon!
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