Rain! Rain! - "End My Opus"

To people who are wondering what Opus has to do with my post, here it is. Opus in Latin means 'work'. I am ready to end my work and start another person's work. Yes. I am ready with my pseudonym at last.

As you know, I share my name with a film actor. So, I wanted one name from my own individual search. But it is not quite easy to settle down with a particular name. The following were my choices before I finally found the best/my favourite.

Yadhunandhan:

I was always in favour of a name in தமிழ்- my mother tongue - with short sounds, or in தமிழ் , குறில் எழுத்துகள். I was also interested in the name because it represented Lord Krishna, whose methods to manipulate the entire war of Mahabhaarat attracted me. I was also in favour of doing any trick which led to the establishment and victory of Dharma. But, as time passed, I wanted to be secular and unbiased to all religions. Hence, I had to part with my very first choice for a pseudonym.

The same secular intent disqualified names such as Ramanujam and Xavier.

Name for a name:

An eye for an eye will make the world go blind, but I thought "A name for a name" wouldn't do much harm. As the actor was re-christened with my name, I thought of lifting off his name for my pseudonym. His birth name was John Kennedy, but again, due to secular reasons , "John" or "Kennedy" was rejected. There began the search for names used by him in his movies.

Names like, Raju, Gemini, Thiyaagaraajan, Suresh, etc. were rejected as they weren't in my mother tongue.

Names like Hameed, Kasi, Kanagavel, Aarumugam, Aarusaamy, Chitthan, Arul kumaran, and Kanthaswamy were rejected for the secular intention.

Names like Samurai, Sethu, Anniyan etc. were rejected because I had already used them as my usernames in my mails and found them old.

I had to find one from Dev, Sathyamoorthy, Sekhar and Arivumathi.

I thought of a tamizh form for the name 'Dev' as in Devan or 'தேவன்'. But, there was already a reknown publisher/writer of the same name.

'Sekhar ' didn't impress me, and 'Arivumathi' sounded too pompous as it denoted 'excess of knowledge' . Because both 'Arivu' and 'Mathi' meant 'Knowledge' in my mother tongue.

As I wanted to write a lot of fiction including a lot lies, I didn't want for 'Sathyamoorthy' because it meant ' An Idol of truth'.

A different film name:

As I was browsing through the books written by my favourite author "Sujatha \ சுஜாதா" Rangarajan, I came across a definition for the word 'Akhil'. The word actually meant the entire world in my mother tongue but also had a different name in 'armour'. So, I was interested with this. This was also related to the actor because, the film 'Sethu' which brought him to the limelight was originally titled 'Akhilan' and to be released under a different name. I was quite joyous after learning about this fact because the prospect of an armour saving me was very interesting.

I was ready for Akhilan, but I was deeply disappointed when I found that there was another profound thamizh\ தமிழ் author who had this name.

I wasn't ready to share the pseudonym too.

AT LAST:

I finally got one after compromising with the "short-sound" constraint. I liked the name "Maari" not "Mary" or "Marie". This name stood for the rain, and I liked the rain very much. A few other resources also told that it was the name of a sylvan rain god. What else would I need? So, here it is. All reporters, kindly note down. The 'pseudonym' is finally ready. The rain!!! - source for one of the five elements which the world needs to survive.

So, if you find any author of the same name, kindly inform me. If not, the name, Maari is here to stay forever. ```!```!```!- Rain, what else?