I FEEL bad whenever strangers mispronounce my four-letter first name. It is my identity as a natural being, and hearing it correctly is music to my ears. During exorcism rites, the priest cannot even summon the devil without a specific name. But what s in a name? Shakespeare s famous tragedy highlighted the immortal question of how to distinguish a Capulet from a Montague. Similar to the proposal of renaming the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the Philippines to Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Pilipinas in House Bill 7031, the argument settles that it can be meaningless sometimes as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
It was at the venue in 1973 where the representatives of the students’ union under JP adopted a resolution for launching a statewide agitation against the misrule of the then government, which later paved the way for changing the political scenario of the entire nation
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the defense ministry and the military are clashing over the name of a 1,800-ton Navy submarine which was named after an independence fighter. The prime minister seeks to rename the ROKS Hong Beom-do citing the freedom fighter s involvement with the Soviet Communist Party.
The park in Kankarbagh locality, which was earlier named after late PM Vajpayee, has been renamed as Cocunut park by the department of environment and forest and was to be inaugurated by its minister Tej Pratap Yadav.