Meandering thoughts - Sita Sreeraman

We love our family but every family has them - for lack of finding a good fit of a word, I will call it 'currency'. It is that thing that makes you accepted, appreciated or not. Some of these labels/prejudices are short-lived , others stick life-long. It is the yard-stick of success within the family. In some families, it is comparisons based only on good looks, being fair skinned etc. For others - it is comparisons on education, money, job, family you are married into, handsome spouses, your in-laws social status, foriegn travel, being modern(a blog topic for another day), how well one can cook, how big and aesthetic one's house is etc  We have all faced some of these prejudices at one time or another. Some of them are plain funny and we can laugh them off. Others hurtful and cruel for eg. someone being dark skinned - to judge a person just on this and ignore the rest of their personality - is cruel.  As one grows up and become older,  we begin to realize how wasted

I am fascinated by how our names are getting shorter, more difficult to pronounce and unique and unheard of before. The more exotic, the more difficult to pronounce, you have got a winner! lol! Until our parent's generation and to a large extent in my generation, this was not the norm. With our children's generation, we are taking names a lot more seriously, a lot lot more seriously! I decided to jot down the names I know because before long these names will be extinct! My grandfather is Sri T.R. Parameshwara Iyer (Trikkur RamaIyer for the initails). My father's generation pretty much went the same way, though they dropped the Iyer and names became T.P.Sreeraman, T.P. Gopalakrishnan etc. (T for Trikkur and P for Thatha's name). And the names were the names of dieties: Rama: Sreeraman, Rajaraman, Anantharaman, Pattabhiraman, Kalyanaraman, Kodandaraman, Sundararaman, Subharaman, Sethuraman, Seetharaman, Balaraman, Jayaraman, Ramachandran, Ramabhadran, Ramanathan,