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anilkc
December 21st, 2004, 11:02 PM
Contrary to popular beleif, many hot startups by Indians in US have their companies name in Inidan languages. e.g., Bharosa (http://www.bharosa.com),
airvana (derived from nirvana) http://www.airvananet.com, meru networks (http://www.merunetworks.com).
This is healthy trend and should be encouraged. While on the other hand, many indians on landing in US start using western sounding names for themselves, like anil becomes andy, bharat becomes brad. Also, most of the companies in India try to use western or neutral names. While chinese companies use chinese name. Are we sufferering from some complexity or lack of confidence ?

anilkc
December 22nd, 2004, 05:27 AM
another one:
http://www.jadoopower.com/

vickypanwar
December 30th, 2004, 01:38 PM
Dear Anil,
English has become an Indian language. So much so that (almost) all higher education (and certainly all technical education) in the country is in english.

As far as chinese are concerned, I found that most of the chinese people in the US also have american names. This is unlike Indians who are still relatively more comfortable with their Indian names.

-Vikas

anilkc
December 30th, 2004, 08:18 PM
most chinese do not have american names. those are nicknames, which in USA can be used for all purpose. the official name is alway chinese. to pronounce the original chinese name is difficult and so the alt name. many indian also have english names. it was only in late 90s when s/w engrs came to USA in mass that
original indian names became popular mainly becos of ignorance of the new arrivals abt the nickname funda and that americans needed s/w engrs badly.
But, actually what i was trying to point out was not indians in usa but in india compared to chinese in china and japanese in japan.

vickypanwar
December 31st, 2004, 12:53 PM
if you are referring to what is called a "given name" in the US, then AFAIK it can be used anywhere you can use your "original name".

Your original post talked of Indians in the US so I assumed that's what you were talking about.

But anyway, as I said it has a lot to do with the "language of the elite". In Japan people study Law in Japanese. In Russia they study medicine in Russian, similarly in China, Germany, France, Spain and many others.
In countries like India that were colonies of erstwhile Imperialist nations, "foreign" languages have become popular.
What could be a bigger paradox than the fact that we are talking about it right here in English and not in haryanavi/hindi !