Not Yet Named

The letter from Liechtenstein embassy is not easy one for "Not Yet Named", it stated that his name matched with 1,349,927 possible terrorist names, so they are not granted visa for him to study in the University of Liechtenstein. Yes, the hero of this story’s name is "Not Yet Named". Here is small flash back, 23 years ago our hero born in India to an ultra orthodox family. They usually consult everything with astrologer before proceed. After our hero born, they went to astrologer for naming and naming ceremony date and times. In India, most of the communities naming ceremony are, big one like marriage, engagement. They usually name after consulting astrologer, the name starts with one of the god based on his birth star and followed by his great great grandfather to his father in descending order. The ceremony starts in the morning, with all relatives’ presence and each one have to say his name 3 times, after everyone finishes calling his name, the ceremony will be over after late night or close to midnight. The girls naming ceremony would not be this much longer and it would be cut short because girls name is not important to Indian culture.

The astrologer stares at "Not Yet Named" parents and did some calculation, and he explains that "your son was born when Saturn looking directly to mercury at 5th house and mercury intersecting venues at 9th house so we shouldn’t name him now, the naming ceremony shall happen on his 34th birthday and his name shall be "Sadagopa Gopalla Govinda Govinda Govinda". He continued "if we name him now, his life time will be curtail and he will be die at his age 15th". The parents got scared, they determined not to name him until the age 34th. They used to call him "Muthaladhavan" (literally means first born son).

But when "not yet named" become school age the problem arise, because they have to give some name to school. The parents called his uncle who was rocket scientist at NASA in U.S.A. He is official brain for his family’s issues like this, he would offer a solution with in 10 nano seconds using his rocket science brain. But this issue was little different for him to handle, but he offered a solution that "we can give "not yet named" as name to school, because here in U.S.A also i used to give the same to social security when my son born after consulting our astrologer I changed to real name". So our hero got a name "not yet named" officially, his friends used to call him "nameless" like "seedless". His name appears strange in his certificates, one of high school diploma his name came as "not yet named why??", his parents spent lot of money to change it to "not yet named" after several explanation to high school data entry office.

The issue with Liechtenstein embassy is, they also named several possible terrorists "not yet named" because they have the photo or rough sketch but no name. Our hero name also matched with it, either he has to wait another 11 years to reapply or Liechtenstein embassy have to implement facial recognition software to clear his name.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Eppidida..mudiyalada...


-Already named Maheswari
Good one Subba. You do have a talent for this.
Thanks Sukumar for comment and encouragement.

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