Name of the Day

[muckefuck]

Altaf Tyrewala

(At first, I thought "Tyrewala" might be one of those awesome Mumbai Parsi surnames like "Contractor" and "Engineer", but apparently it's a Muslim name.)

Comments

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

Ha! Favorites of mine include "Treasurywala" and "Gheewala".

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Gheewala! My nipples explode with delight!

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

Some novel I read had "Sodawaterbottleopenerwalla", but I'm fairly sure that was fictitious.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I Goggled this (in assorted variant spellings) and found that it seems to be a common urban legend. In The Hindu, Sangeeth Kurian writes, "There is even a Parsi joke that there once lived a gentleman in a small manufacturing unit called Sodabottleopenerwala." But several other less reliable sources refer to the name as actually being in use.

[zabster.livejournal.com]

Another fun Parsee name is Readymoney.

Have you read any Rohinton Mistry? Brilliant Parsee novelist.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I've read Swimming lessons and quite enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to picking up one of his novels when I get the chance.