I often edit Wikipedia... adding links and categorising pages.
When I come across biography pages of Indian people (that is, people from India) the name is often in initials.
Why don't people write out the whole name?
What do the initials stand for?
2007-01-31 21:41:24 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Travel ➔ India ➔ Other - India
Even in encyclopedic context, the names aren't written out in full. Doesn't that confuse the people?
2007-01-31 21:49:41 · update #1
Indian names represent cast & religion. Just to avoid contraversy by disclosing such cast & community, one is writing initials only. Mostly a person is recognised by one's first name. This is to show that we are first Indian & we do not believe in our religion, cast or community whenever we are going out of India.
2007-01-31 22:25:22 · answer #1 · answered by agni 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of our names are complex to write in English and there is started Initials only. Present day names are not much conplex but we got habituated on using initials. I will give some example -
Jagadish Chandra Basu - initials - JC Bose.
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha = PT Usha
2007-01-31 21:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
as there are many religion and many people with same names they use initials, it means that the initial are not same for all, as there the initial name stands as their house name, as it is not required to call with whole name
2007-01-31 21:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by hari krishna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intials represent father name & family name.
2007-01-31 21:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because their name are long so they put it in initials..... simple
2007-01-31 21:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by deadman12319 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not Always......
2007-01-31 21:58:37 · answer #6 · answered by elvisjohn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they r too long!!
2007-01-31 23:11:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋