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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Pronunciation advice - Rajiv Gandhi's assassins

I do feel odd writing a post about Rajiv Gandhi's assassins. But then the names are being mauled every which way. And I believe even assassins do not deserve this treatment (though ironically they might be dead in two months time). So here goes

Murugan is pronounced as mu-ru-gun or मुरुगन. If you can read Tamil, it reads as முருகன்.
His wife Nalini Sriharan is pronounced as null-in-ee sree-har-un or नळिनी श्रीहरन. நளினி ஸ்ரீகரன்.
His other associates are Santhan and PerarivaaLan, pronounced as sahn-tuhn (the t is soft French sound) and pair-a-riv(er)-all-un. In Hindi they would read as सांतन and पेररिवाळन. In Tamil it would read as சாந்தன் and பேரறிவாளன்.

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