by m kalyanaramanin tamil nadu socialism could wed mamata banerjee just as easily as de gaulle could chitchat with annadurai recently in the news was the story of how a cpi leader and a congress family had named their children after political leaders and ideologiessalems mamata banerjee was likely named when her namesake was a brave congress activist in west bengal staring down the ruling cpm a long time ago when she was barely a leader in her own righttamils name their children after gods and goddesses their own fathers and mothers or their forefathers they also name them after their heroes well known personalities from across the world or whoever is trending there is a certain freedom that tamils exercise in naming their childrenread the full story on toi