Planned to buy BFI film festival tickets as I’ve got a membership and can buy a week early.
Wanted to see 9 movies in 11 days. Managed to get it down to 4 movies.
The website queue mechanism wasn’t obvious, despite being on early. By the time I joined properly, “You are 15,000th in the queue”. (For a couple of small screen cinema tickets)
Just going to go and find the movies online that looked interesting from last year instead.
Based on the reference feet, that is very big.
You guys eating Brontosauruses?
Feet on floor, knife portions on countertop.
For some reason I have a sudden strong memory of tearing punch trails off of dot matrix printer pages…
Hey, does anyone here happen to know anyone Indian?
I have a character in a book I"m writing named Shiva Jaipur (male), and while I have confirmed both are names, Andy is suspicious that it is an unrealistic name.
I think it’s fine, but I literally know no Indian people I can ask whether it’s an okay name or not.
I do, I’ll ask him
This might be a good place to start though https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/team/india-6/caps/test-1
There’s a current international called Shivam Dube
There’s also an Indian cricketer called Napoleon Einstein
I will ask as well.
A spot check shows that Jaipuria is a surname but Jaipur is not common. But it’d only take a line for Mr. Jaipuria to explain that he shortened his name for reason X yadda yadda.
Shiva Jaipur sounds like he knows how to hotwire a car and drink a martini.
He’s a sergeant of a marine detachment on a starship.
So yeah. Be probably does. 
If its sci-fi, it probably doesn’t matter if it varies slightly from the modern day names anyway.
Chances are names will have evolved.
I’m dubious about someone named directly after one of the Hindu gods. (I don’t know; Latin America has plenty of Jesuses, after all. But I don’t think I’ve met it.)
Afaik (which is only about as much as the searches I’m sure you’ve done already), it’s a viable name, but to anyone like me it sounds like “god name + place name” or a hotel in Jaipur or something. It’s a combination of exotic words that each only have one very strong association that doesn’t sound to me like a human person name.
My friend says it’s legit.
If you’re interested - the most common recent surname in Indian cricket is Yadav. And variations on Ravi for a first name
The most common family name I’ve ever heard of is Nguyễn – something like one third of all Vietnamese people have this name (apparently due to a number of historical instances of people changing their names to this in large numbers, for Reasons).
Yeah, to some extent its the Tiffany Problem. On the one hand, it is a viable name.
On the other hand, so is Thor Toronto, but if i met a Thor Toronto it would sound weird.
But on the gripping hand, I do legit know a Talos who changed his name due to the Elder Scroll series. So.
Edit: … and I think I read about a Swedish immigrant to Japan who legally changed his name to “Masamune Tokagawa” or something equally ridiculous. Basically he changed his name to “Excalibur Windsor.”
To be fair, both Thor Toronto and Excalibur Windsor are terrific names, and I am tempted to change my name to at least one of them.
But yes, neither are convincingly realistic names for a character, if convincingly realistic is what you’re after.
I asked my Indian friend and she replied:
Second names in India are usually caste names like patel, mukherjee, iyer etc.
Place names are also used but only in some states and it’s used like a prefix before the first name. Jaipur is a city and i honestly haven’t heard of anyone with that as a second name.
Shiva is fine but if the character is from anywhere North, he would be Shiv.
If they want the character to be from jaipur, they could change it to Shiv Jai Singh. Much more common actually
