Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My Name Is Pooja!





A few exciting facts about the name Pooja. Yes, don't look here and there; I’m talking about my own name.

Oh BTW, it can also be spelled as Puja, saves one alphabet and also some paper and lead, in the later years to come.

For starters technically my name means, a prayer, no ways was I a prayer for the Gods!
But otherwise it also means to worship, does is mean I have to be worshipped or should I worship? Well as I still have this confusion, I don indulge in worshipping or let anyone worship me!
           
If you haven’t noticed by now, let me enlighten you, Pani-Puri, pizza, pau-bhaji, petrol, paint and Pooja, all exciting, delicious and interesting things begin with a P.

If I remember correctly there were al the least 2 Poojas in each of my class, every year. Some more in the other sections and divisions, in short the most popular name in the school was undoubtedly, Pooja!

There is this person whom I know of, his best female friend was Pooja, later his girl friend also had the same name, and he married (not his girlfriend) another Pooja! But that’s not all; his younger brother also fell in love and later married a Pooja, this time the same one!

But then coming back to my name, that’s what the blog was supposed to be about in the first place, Pooja Shah Desai, that is Pooja as in my first name, which I have elongated elaborately, brings us to Shah, my maternal name.

The Shah surname which I guess has some origins or roots from some or the other royalties, remember all those Shah Jahans’ and Akbar Shahs that appeared so frequently in our History texts, latest in the list being Shah Rukh Khan. But I have failed badly to try and draw a connection between any of these famous personalities, mainly because they all are Muslims and me a Hindu, as if you dint guess it from the name Pooja.

Here let me also tell you that Shah, if not more, is an equally popular surname amongst the Gujarati clan. It is one surname that the US government is not issuing visas to also.
And if all this was not enough, I married a Desai, now here I will go back on my words above where I said Shah was popular, because there I had not taken into consideration Desai’s popularity.

On the last count, only on facebook, count for number of Pooja was more than 600 and these were only with some mutual friend connection and with pictures, I did not dare find more, so I gave up the idea of finding how many Poojas like spelling their name as Puja!

Number of Pooja Shah also happened to cross the 600 mark, I dint have the inclination to count further.

And now what, u guessed it right, the count of Pooja Desai also crossed the 600 mark. I think there is something with FB which allows only 600 names to be displayed!

And here I was trying to find out, which of my name is more popular! If the government were to start taxing parents for calling their daughter Pooja, they would be lesser debt!!



But all said and done, there are some virtues too in having a name that is so common! I have all the anonymity that I would want, and still use my real name. I can say “My name is Pooja, naam to suna hi hoga!” with more ease than any Rahul!

                    

                    


7 comments:

  1. ON ONE SIDE U ARE BOASTING ABOUT UR NAME
    AND ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE MAKING US READ THAT TWICE!!!!!

    WELL I REALLY LIKED UR OBSERVATION ABOUT UR NAME

    PRAYING AND WORSHIPING SURELY ARE ONE OF THE BEST AND DIVINE WAYS OF REMEMBERING THE ALMIGHTY GOD

    AND PLEASE DON'T SOUND LIKE A JAIN BANIYA BY SAYING PUJA SAVES A LETTER, SOME LEAD AND SOME PAPER... THAT AIN'T MAKING MAJOR DIFFERENCE

    I LOVED UR OBSERVATION ABOUT ALL SIZZLING AND EXITING THINGS STARTING FROM P
    HERE ARE A FEW MORE:
    PHOTOGRAPH
    PERK
    PASTA
    POSTING A COMMENT
    PANTHER
    PANCAKES, ETC ETC.

    I ALSO LIKE THE OBV THAT SINCE THERE R A LOT OF POOJA'S AROUND WE CAN HAVE AFFAIR WITH ONE AND CONVINIENTLY MARRY ANOTHER.. THATS VERY COMFORTABLE

    BUT I DIDNT UNDERSTOOD THE FACT THAT THERE WERE 600 POOJA ON FB
    AND ALSO 600 OF THEM WERE POOJA SHAH..
    "KYA POOJA KE SAATH AUR KOI SURNAME NAHI LAGTI HAI KYA"

    AND RIGHT NOW U R AN ASSET FOR UR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.. PLSS DONT BECOME A LIABILITY BY ASKING THE GOVT TO TAX UR NAME



    FINALY.. ANYTIME WHEN U WILL ASK "NAAM TO SUNA HOGA"
    MY ANSWER WOULD BE ALWAYS "SOCHANE DO"

    JUST JOKING

    IT WILL BE YESSS...

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  2. I think you cut paste went wrong .. you have pasted the article twice in the same Post... :)

    or are you trying ot make sure we read the whole of it he he hehe :)

    Yes indeed you got a Lovely name ... Now i know what Pooja is all about

    Bikram's

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  3. Oppps! Sorry and thanks Mihir and Bikramjit for bringing the error to my notice!
    and yes maybe it was to make sure people are reading my posts carefully. ;)
    Mihir, your comment is as long as my post, thats why i keep telling you to write your own blogs. And I would not call a Panther exciting and interesting.

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  4. Bikram: Ahm ahm.. lovely name haan? Shall I go on about my name now??
    Pooja: Yes, its a lovely name and I can see you are as obsessed with your name as I am with my hair. :) Annnddd all exciting things start with a P.. I AGREE.. Punam too. he he he.
    Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope to see more of you there. :)

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  5. HAHAHA

    NICE EXCUSE FOR UR MISTAKE

    DONT WORRY FIRST LET ME PRACTICE BY COMMENTING ON UR POST.. EVENTUALLY I MIGHT START WRITING A FEW. WILL SEND U FIRST FOR APPROVAL... :)

    AND BY THE WAY PANTHER IS EXCITING FOR ADVENTURE LOVERS.

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  6. @Punam and Bikramjit, is there something that I'm missing? And yes Punam too is a nice name.
    Mihir, i dint know abt the panthers!

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  7. Hey Pooja! Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog! Hope you are doing good. You have a nice blog. I tried to follow it thru google frnd connect but there seems to be some problem.

    I have another blog. http://discoveringhappinessnow.blogspot.com.

    Have a look at it as well. See ya around! God Bless you!

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