Not-so-common Names for Indian Boys and Girls

References: 1. Sanskrit-Marathi-English-Dictionary
                     2. Chaus Marathi Dictionary
                     3. Dyaneshwari Shabdakosh
                     4. https://www.pitarau.com

Boy
No	Name	Meaning	नाव	अर्थ
1	Kovid	Experienced	कोविद	अनुभवी
2	Kalya	Healthy	कल्य	निरोगी
3	Kubhrut	Mountain	कुभृत	पर्वत
4	Kairav	White Lotus	कैरव	पांढरे कमळ
5	Kushagra	Intelligent, Sharp / Keen / Quick-witted	कुशाग्र	बुद्धिमान
6	Kuruvinda	Ruby	कुरुविंद	माणिक
7	Koteer	Crown	कोटीर	मुकुट
8	Jaatved	Fire	जातवेद	अग्नि
9	Jishnu	Victorious	जिष्णु	जिंकणारा
10	Neerad	Cloud	नीरद	ढग
11	Nidhan	Treasure	निधान	साठा
12	Nivaha	Collection	निवह	साठा
13	Pranshu	High	प्रांशु	उंच
14	Poorit	Filled	पूरित	भरलेला
15	Prakarsha	Excellence	प्रकर्ष	मोठा गुण
16	Payodhi / Udadhi / Jaladhi	Ocean	पयोधि / जलधि / उदधि	समुद्र
17	Mardav	Softness, gentle	मार्दव	मऊपणा
18	Yuvan	Youth	युवन	तरुण
19	Rushit	Adorned	रुषित	अलंकारलेला
20	Rochis	Light	रोचिस	तेज
21	Ray	Current	रय	प्रवाह
22	Vyutpann	Learned	व्युत्पन्न	अतिशय विज्ञ्वान
23	Vahni	Fire	वह्नि	अग्नि
24	Virakta	Free from pation	विरक्त	अनासक्त
25	Vishuddha	Very Pure	विशुद्ध	अत्यंत शुद्ध
26	Vidit	Known	विदित	जाणलेले, माहीत असणारं / पूर्ण कळलेले
27	Vibodha	Wakening	विबोध	जागृती
28	Vijigeeshu	Desirous to conquer	विजिगीषु	जिंकू इच्छिणारा
29	Varenya	Eminent	वरेण्य	श्रेष्ठ
30	Sharva	Shankar	शर्व	शिव , शंकर
31	Shlaghya	Praiseworthy	श्लाघ्य	स्तुत्य
32	Sartha	Meaningful	सार्थ	अर्थपूर्ण
33	Soushthav	Excellence	सौष्ठव	उत्तमपणा
34	Sajusha	companion	सजुष	जोडीदार
35	Saayujya	Intimate union, Unity with god	सायुज्य	दृढ संयोग, ईश्वराशी ऐक्य, समाधीची शेवटची पायरी
36	Sur	God	सुर	देव
37	Sookta	Vedic hymn	सूक्त	वेदातील स्तोत्र
38	Shreshtha	Best	श्रेष्ठ
39	Dnyeya	knowable / Cognizable	ज्ञेय	जाणण्या योग्य/ज्ञान
40	Dnyaata	Knower	ज्ञाता	जाणणारा / ज्ञान असणारा
41	Geervaan	God / one who likes to be praised	गीर्वाण	देव /
42	Aadhey	worthy of giving shelter	आधेय	आधार घेण्यास योग्य
43	Aarav	park	आरव	बाग
44	Druma	Tree	दृम	झाड
45	Dhyeya	Subject of meditation	ध्येय	ध्यानाचा विषय
46	Prabuddha	The one who knows	प्रबुद्ध	जाणता
47	Praroha	Growth	प्ररोह	वाढ
48	Praseed	Bless me	प्रसीद	कृपा कर
49	Velhaal	Lovable	वेल्हाळ	प्रिय
50	Sadhar	Fixed	सधर	दृढ
51	Samargha	Easy to understand	समर्घ	कळण्यास सोपा
52	Souras	Sweet	सौरस	गोडी / प्रसाद / संबंध / अभिप्राय
53	Ankur	Bud	अंकुर
54	Adhvaryoo	Protagonist	अध्वर्यू	कैवारी
55	Eshta	Desirable / Desired	इष्ट
56	Upaasya	Venerable / an object of worship	उपास्य
57	Urdhva	Upper / High	ऊर्ध्व
58	Ojasvee	Bright / Brilliant / Resplendent	ओजस्वी
59	Kanav	Compassion	कणव
60	Kanak	Gold	कनक	सोनं
61	Khag	Bird	खग	पक्षी
62	Khachit	Studded	खचित
63	Chiraayoo	Long Lived	चिरायू
64	Teertha	a place of pilgrimage	तीर्थ
65	Dhureen	The Head / The chief / Leading	धुरीण
66	Nishnaat	Expert / Skilled	निष्णात
67	Nisseem	Boundless / immeasurable / limitless	निस्सीम	सीमा रहीत
68	Paris	a philosopher's stone	परिस	धातूचं सोनं करणारा दगड
69	Pareekshit	Examined / Tried / Proven	परीक्षित	अर्जूनाचा नातू
70	Pourush	virility / manhood / manliness	पौरुष
71	Prakarsha	Abundance	प्रकर्ष	भरपूर
72	Prateet	Experienced	प्रतीत	अनुभवी
73	Prathit	renowned / celebrated	प्रथित
74	Prerit	inspired / motivated	प्रेरित
75	Biruda	a mark of excellence	बिरुद
76	Bhadra	auspicious	भद्र
77	Moulik	valuable / fundamental / original	मौलिक
78	Ruchir	Lovely / Beautiful / Attractive / Charming	रुचिर
79	Vajra	a thunderbolt / lightning / steel	वज्र	विज
80	Vandit	adored	वंदित
81	Vandya	adorable	वंद्य
82	Vardhishnoo	increasing	वर्धिष्णू	वाढणारं
83	Vidur	a learned man	विदुर	शिकलेला पुरुष
84	Vishuddha	pure / clean	विशुद्ध	शुद्ध
85	Vedhak	attractive	वेधक	आकर्षक
86	Shraddheya	worthy of faith	श्रद्धेय	श्रद्धा ठेवण्यास योग्य
87	Shlaaghya	commendable	श्लाघ्य	स्तुत्य
88	Samyak	proper / correct / right, well	सम्यक	बरोबर / योग्य, छान
89	Saakalya	totality / entirety	साकल्य	सर्व
90	Saakha	reputation / credibility	साख
91	Saanunaya	humble / modest	सानुनय
92	Saalas	simple / gentle / good natured / modest	सालस	साधा
93	Sudnya	sensible / wise / sage	सुज्ञ	चांगलं ज्ञान असलेला
94	Stavan	praise	स्तवन	स्तुती
95	Stutya	praiseworthy	स्तुत्य	स्तुती करण्यास योग्य
96	Stotra	a hymn	स्तोत्र	श्लोक
97	Lobhas	Lust inducing	लोभस	मोहात टाकणारं
98	Laghav	Love	लाघव	प्रेम
99	Aadya	1st, Name used for Ganapati in Dyaneshwari	आद्य	पहीला, ज्ञानेश्वरीत गणपतीला वापरलेलं नाव
100	Abhidnya	Expert	अभिज्ञ	पारंगत, निष्णात
101	Abhva	Great, Powerful	अभ्व	महान, शक्तिवान
102	Amedh	Intelligence	अमेध	बुद्धी
103	Ayan	Solar path	अयन	सुर्याचा भ्रमणाचा मार्ग
104	Adheesh	King	अधीश	स्वामी , राजा
105	Asit	Shreekrushna	असित	श्रीकृष्ण, काळा
106	Adhit	King	अधित	राजा
107	Adhip	King	अधिप	स्वामी
108	Aarsh	Sacred	आर्ष	पवित्र
109	Ivan	Equal	इवान	समान, देवाचा आशिर्वाद
110	Urveesh	King of the earth	उर्वीश	पृथ्वीपती, राजा
111	Udapi	Sea	उदपि	समुद्र
112	Uttung	Very high	उत्तुंग	फार उंच
113	Kanaad	A well known sage	कणाद	एक ऋषी
114	Kavan	Hymn	कवन	पद्य रचना
115	Krunaal	Gentle	कृणाल	कोमल
116	Drusheek	Noticeable	दृशीक	लक्ष देण्यासारखा
117	Paavan	Vyaas, Pure, Vishnoo	पावन	व्यास , शुद्ध, विष्णू
118	Paarshad	Favourite	पार्षद	आवडता
119	Purvil	Direction	पुर्विल	दिशा
120	Pruthoo	Different, Clever	पृथू	भिन्न, वेगळा, चतुर
121	Pourav	King Porus	पौरव	पुरु राजा
122	Pravar	Main, Best	प्रवर	प्रमुख, उत्कृष्ट
123	Praanchoo	High, Vishnoo	प्रांशू	उंच, विष्णू
124	Shreesh	Vishnoo	श्रीश	लक्ष्मी पती
125	Arhat	Respectable / Worthy / able / One who has attained higher most level of spiritual knowledge as per Buddhist / Jain traditions	अर्हत
126	Bhrigu		भ्रिगु
127	Charak		चरक
128	Khadir	heavenly, celestial, moon, Indra, black cutch tree	खदिर
129	Aaroh	rising, increasing, pride and rider	आरोह
130	Archis	ray of light or lustre	अर्चिस
131	Vashishtha	most excellent, master of all creation, dearest, distinguished	वशिष्ठ
132	Preyas	Lovable, more agreeable, more desired, love and flattery	प्रेयस
133	Aalaap	kind of melody	आलाप
134	Arha	someone who is deserving or full of merit, worthy of being praised, Lord Vishnoo	अर्ह
135	Vyas	separation, diffuse, extension, arranger, division, severing and diameter	व्यास
136	Rbhu	artist, clever, deity A sage who was the son of Brahma and a brilliant scholar (Vishnu Purana), the god who is worshiped by other gods Another name for Agni, Indra and the Adityas.	ऋभु
137	Tavish	Courageous, Heaven, Strong, Gold	तविष
138	Vedhas	brave, wise or learned man, wealth, worshipper of the gods, name of Harishchandra's father	वेधस
139	Parasme	name of lord Rama, superior	परस्मै
140	Varchaswee	Energetic, Vigorous, Vital, One who has absolute power	वर्चस्वी	ज्याचं वर्चस्व आहे, शक्तीशाली, तेजस्वी
141	Siddha		सिद्ध
142	Gareeya	better	गरीय	बेहतर
Girl
No	Name	Meaning	नाव	अर्थ
1	Stutee		स्तुती
2	Agrima		अग्रिमा	पहीली
3	Atiga	Surpassing	अतिगा	वरचढ
4	Aakhya	Name	आख्या	नाव, किर्ती
5	Gaathaa	Religious Poetry	गाथा	धार्मिक काव्य
6	Gira	Voice	गिरा	वाणी
7	Ghrutachee	Night	घृताची	रात्र
8	Charvee	Beautiful Female	चार्वी	सुंदर स्त्री
9	Jigeeshaa	Desire of conquering	जिगीषा	जिंकण्याची इच्छा
10	Dhruti	Courage	धृति	धैर्य
11	Dhee	Intelligence	धी	बुद्धी
12	Dhishana	Praise	धिषणा	स्तुती
13	Yosha	Young women	योषा	तरुणी
14	Raka	Full Moon day	राका	पुर्णिमा
15	Vaikharee	Speech	वैखरी	वाणी
16	Swasti	Well	स्वस्ति	ठीक
17	Struvati	River	स्त्रुवती	नदी
18	Saadhvee	Sacred woman	साध्वी	शुद्ध स्त्री
19	Shredhi	Progress	श्रेढी	प्रगती, चढता क्रम
20	Urvee	Earth	उर्वी	पृथ्वी
21	Kshoni	Abundance	क्षोणी	विपुलता
22	Garui	Great	गरुइ	श्रेष्ठ, मोठी
23	Gomatee	Beautiful	गोमटी	सुंदर
24	Druti	Fragrance	दृति	सुवास
25	Dhruti	Courage	धृति	धैर्य
26	Vajrangee		वज्रांगी	चिलखत / कवच
27	Aaveshi	One who has enveloped	आवेषि	व्यापून राहते
28	Shronavee	Earth	श्रोणवी	पृथ्वी
29	Suhava	Sweet Voice	सुहावा	गोड स्वर
30	Agranee	Leading	अग्रणी
31	Asmani	Azure	अस्मानी
32	Ojasvee	Bright / Brilliant / Resplendent	ओजस्वी
33	Garima	Dignity	गरिमा
34	Jaladhee	Sea	जलधी	पाण्याचा साठा
35	Takaakee	Gloss / Polish / Shine	तकाकी
36	Tushtee	Gratification	तुष्टी
37	Dyutee	Light	द्युती	प्रकाश
38	Pratishthaa	Prestige / Reputation	प्रतिष्ठा
39	Vidushee	a learned woman	विदुषी	शिकलेली स्त्री
40	Shlaaghaa	praise / flattery	श्लाघा	स्तुती
41	Sweeyaa	personal	स्वीया	खाजगी
42	Arvitaa	Speed, velocity	अर्विता	वेग, गती
43	Aadimaa	First	आदिमा	पहीली
44	Aadyaa	Of the beginning	आद्या	प्रारंभीची
45	Aarshaa	Sacred	आर्षा	पवित्र
46	Eevishaa	First Female	ईविशा	आद्य स्त्री
47	Oorvee	Earth	ऊर्वी	पृथ्वी
48	Krushneemaa	Black	कृष्णीमा	कृष्ण वर्णी
49	Kairavee	White lotus	कैरवी	पांढरे कमळ
50	Tripaa	Parvatee	त्रिपा	पार्वती
51	Tanveshaa	Delicate	तन्वेशा	नाजूक
52	Tarishee	Indra's daughter	तरिषी	इंद्र कन्या
53	Tavishee	God's daughter	तविषी	देव कन्या
54	Diggajaa	Learned	दिग्गजा	विद्वान
55	Nishthaa	Love, devotion	निष्ठा	भक्ती, प्रेम
56	Pahoomee	Earth	पहूमी	पृथ्वी
57	Pouravee	Vasudev's wife	पौरवी	वसुदेवाची एक पत्नी
58	Praagee	Prosperous	प्रागी	प्रगती कारक
59	Prekhsaa	Knowledge	प्रेक्षा	ज्ञान / प्रज्ञा
60	Yoshitaa	Beautiful lady	योषिता	सुंदर स्त्री
61	Laaghavee	Fast?	लाघवी	स्फुर्ती / जलद ?
62	Viditaa	Knowledge	विदिता	ज्ञान
63	Varidhi	Ocean	वारिधि
64	Vagmee	Wordy, Eloquent, talkative and Speaking, Goddess Who Controls Word	वाग्मी
65	Vedhinee	knowing, feeling, proclaiming, Goddess Laxmi	वेधिनी
66	Vruddhi	growth	वृद्धि

RERA Act - Duties of a developer and thus rights of a buyer

Government of India and the various state governments very soon will notify the final version of Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) act.

Here is a brief flow chart / summary of various provisions listed in this law. This brief will give an idea of what a customer can expect / demand from the builder:

(Please excuse me for some overlap below)

50 Days of Demonetization – 'Things Gone Right / Things Gone Wrong' - Analysis

Demonetization

Today (30^th December 2016) marks the 50^th day after our PM Shri Narendra Modiji announced a historic move of demonetization of high value currency notes of ` 500/- and ` 1000/- on 8^th of November 2016.

In his high-octane speech on 8^th November, Modiji urged citizens of India to bear the brunt of demonetization till 30^th December (for 50 days) by which he expected the things would return to normalcy. As promised by him; indeed situation is improving as I like many others could withdraw 5-6 thousand rupees in 2 days from ATM and our waiting time was not more than 5 -6 minutes each day.

Much has happened in these 50 days right from the doors of government to opposition and from public to media. So this attempt is to list down “Things Gone Right” (TGR) and “Things Gone Wrong” (TWG) from a point of view of lay man like me who is a Modi supporter.

New Notes of Rs. 500/- and Rs. 2000/-

No.	TGW (Things Gone Wrong)	TGR (Things Gone Right)
1.	Unpunished, ever-growing and socially acceptable corruption and black money since past 70 years of Indian Independence	Guts shown by our PM to take steps against such menace of a corrupt system and black money
2.	a) Long queues, cash crunch, inconvenience to general public all across India. b) Few stray incidences of public unrest.	a) Support given by citizens from all walks of life even at the cost of huge inconvenience to them. b) Support of citizens arrested by our PM through no. of public speeches with no major incidence of public unrest against overwhelming and inevitable problems of demonetization. c) Initial support given by almost all of the opposing parties
3.	a) Unpreparedness of GOI seen through stalled micro economic activities due to crash crunch. b) Frequent policy changes by GOI and RBI and c) some time complete reversal of its policies.	a) Nothing would have prepared anyone for the herculean task of scrapping 80 – 86% of the currency in circulation in the vast country like India. b) It reflects agility of the system (big difference from Manmohan era) in spite being a ‘Sarkari’ system and speed of decision making of GOI. c) Policy reversal reflects willingness of GOI to accept its mistakes and do the course correction.
4.	a) Nothing was done by the GOI (like printing more currency notes of low denominations) in anticipation of the cash crunch in cash driven economy of India. b) Even in his speech on 8th; Modiji fell short of portraying the severity of the entire overhaul and most of the commoners especially from metros inaccurately considered money exchange and cash withdrawal would return to absolute normalcy within couple of weeks.	a) High level of secrecy and surprise was at most important to arrest black to white conversions of politicos and corrupts.
5.	Life came to a standstill with no cash to spend on daily necessities particularly in villages and more so for the remote villages where there is zero or limited exposure to financial institutes and internet.	Remarkably reduced naxalism, terrorism, human trafficking etc. In fact economic activities began to normalise in Kashmir after demonetization as separatists are left with no money to entice Kashmiri youths in to stone pelting and other anti-national activities.
6.	Still lot of them were able to convert black money in to white through illegal means.	These cases coming in to light shows how strong the system has become and how determined the government is to win this battle against black money.
7.	Agitations of opposition parties against government with the aim to get a traction to stop Modi wave	Modi wave is far from dying. BJP is a clear cut winner in local gram panchayat and municipality elections.
8.	Most of the media (presstitutes) being against Mr. Modi and BJP were busy telecasting only the negative impacts of demonetization.	Still there were couple of news channels which were firmly supportive of the decision.
9.	Normalcy is still a distant dream as cash crunch is going to bother us for couple of more months.	a) Cash crunch is easing out for sure and as explained in the introduction, I have experienced it myself. b) Cash crunch is turning out to be a good push for the digital / cash less or limited cash economy - though this might not have been the initial aim.

Finally, in the short term it might be easy to conclude that demonetization was a 'poorly executed - correct decision' (economic indicators like GDP, IIP might support this statement) or nothing on the balck money / corruption front will actually change in the long run; making this entire exercise of demonetization a futile one but I am more happy that my PM elect believes in action.

Action with an intention of correcting it if gone wrong is better than the inaction of decades! 

Amar Photo Studio - A Magnificent cinema that is played on-stage.

You have always herd and experienced that cinema as a medium is stronger than drama. But this notion of yours will be proved absolutely wrong when you will watch Amar Photo Studio and it indeed is that brilliant!

It actually starts with a scene which gives a feel of an extension of Z Marathi daily soap 'Dil Dosti Duniyadari' (for the obvious reason of the same artists) but as soon as the protagonists with a heavy baggage of their emotions enter the wonder land of 'Amar Photo Studio' you literally don't remain in this world. Literally!

The cast - Suvrat Joshi, Amey Wagh, Pooja Thombare, Siddhesh Purkar and Sakhi Gokhale mesmerize you with their acting prowess and comic timming. Except Sakhi, rest of them play more than one character of different length and all of them skilfully and effortlessly mould in each of their character. Amongst them all, Siddhesh is the master of disguise, and as he is still not a well known face you might not recognize him in all his roles.

Scenes of Chandrika (Pooja) and Appu (Suvrat) are the highlights of 1^st half. Amey is damn good as a veteran fillm personality he portrays. Rendition of ‘Char bottle vodka’ with a twist is catchy too. Sakhi’s sheer energy is contagious. But Suvrat’s double role as Appu and his father in a single scene is hands down the best of all.

Kudos to Manaswini Lata Ravindra – the writer of the play – just for thinking of writing a play on the very concept of Amar Photo Studio (I won’t disclose it’s one line theme here as you have to watch it yourself). Lights by Shreyas Talpade – Bang on. Dicto for the music and background score by Gandhar (and Akshay Vaidya). Applause for set design and set changes.

And finally star of the show is the director – Nipun Dharmadhikari (yes he is the one who is listed in the top 30 theater personalities in the world for the year 2016 in Forbes list). He is the to be credited for presenting a 'play' with a 'cinematic brilliance'. He has definitely blurred the line between a drama and a cinema. 

His idea of using black white and retro colours right from set to costumes to lights is praise worthy. Presentation of fight sequence between Suvrat and Siddhesh and Suvrat’s double role are just fantastic.

 Nipun and all the artists have preserved the subtle comedy (no puns (कोटी) or heavy body gestures (अंगविक्षेप)) in the writing of Manaswini ;making this play a delight to watch.

The marketing and social media strategy adopted by them (Gandhar) to promote this play will give you an idea of how ‘hat ke’ this play is. Right from their teaser; challenging well known Marathi artists to upload their age old photographs to their ritual of clicking the photos of audiences after each play and uploading it on their FB page Amar Photo Studio requesting audiences to comment on the photo with their seat no is simply out of the box.

Teaser Challange

 So basically I have all the praises for this play. May be I will have to watch it again to appreciate all its nuances.

So? go and get lost in the fantasy world of ‘Amar Photo Studio’!! and please please please don’t miss this fabulous play produced by Sunil Barve! 

From Left: Pooja Thombre, Nipun Dharmadhikari, Amey Wagh, Sunil Barve, Suvrat Joshi, Sakhi Gokhale, Siddhesh Purkar