![]() ![]() ![]() Every child in India, automatically picks up the tradition of calling and addressing completely unknown folks, older to him/her, as an aunt/uncle etc, in a particular way. What is again intriguing, and something we have always taken for granted, is, how we use these names to interact and relate with people absolutely unrelated, and even unknown to us. One of the beauties of nomenclature of "relationships", in languages, in India, and specifically my language, Marathi, is the way we have different names for different relatives, who may possibly be the same seniority level, vis -a-vis, say, you, but, have these little culturally ordained tick marks hinting at intrinsic superiority, preordained closeness, respectfulness-at-a-distance, and so on.
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