The renaming 'keeda' (hindi for worm) has finally caught up with the politicians of Kerala. There is demand that the state should be renamed as Keralam as that is how most Malayalees pronounce the word.
By this logic it could also be renamed as Keral as rest of India pronounces Kerala as Keral.
It could also be renamed as Kera as Keralam means land of Kera (coconut trees).
Being an SMS generation, Ker would be more popular.
Best would be just K. Imagine a state which has a single character K as its name. No other country or state in the world has a single character name. Soon there will be demand to rename India as I and USA will try to register U before United Kingdom or Uganda does.
Kids learning history will learn that between 1964 and 1975 U fought with V (Vietnam) and I was wondering what to do!
It is so sad that after building a global brand of Kerala, petty politics wants to undo all the effort. Anyway, as Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet".
By the way, how is Kerek. Like Malayalam, Kerek would be a palindrome ( a word that can be read the same way in either direction).
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