{"id":414,"date":"2005-12-02T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/12\/02\/tam-and-bong-cyclone-names\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:10:29","slug":"tam-and-bong-cyclone-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200512\/tam-and-bong-cyclone-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Tam and Bong cyclone names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the weather department has decided to name cyclones hitting India too, I think that we should insist that they follow the Americans&#8217; lead completely and name them keeping in mind the region they are hitting. Tamils and Bengalis should insist on assigning Tamil and Bengali names for the cyclones, not boring ones like Baaz and Agni. Haven&#8217;t we heard those before? I for one, would like to hear &#8220;Cyclone Kalaiselvi has moved further north and it looks like it will give Chennai a miss&#8221; or &#8220;Cyclone Priyaranjan has further intensified and will hit Kolkata&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many cyclones hitting the west coast, but of course the ones that do should be given Maharashtrian names. I would love to reel under a cyclone named Dhurander Bhatwadekar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the weather department has decided to name cyclones hitting India too, I think that we should insist that they follow the Americans&#8217; lead completely and name them keeping in mind the region they are hitting. Tamils and Bengalis should insist on assigning Tamil and Bengali names for the cyclones, not boring ones like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}