‘Lockdown Yadav to Sanitiser Singh’: Indian parents and their tryst with Covid names

It seems Indians who have become parents in these unprecedented times of pandemic and the lockdown don’t want to forget their experience in a hurry. And what better way to do this than to name your child such that they become reminders of the difficult situation they were born in and also symbolise victory over hardships.

Here we take a look at some of these unconventional names

Twins named ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’
The pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus may have brought the entire world to its knees for over three months, but it could not stop a Chhattisgarh couple from naming their newborn twins after it.Born on the intervening night of March 26-27 at a government hospital here, the twins were named ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’

The names, the parents said, would remind them of all the hardships they conquered amid the lockdown.

“I was blessed with the twins – a boy and a girl – in the early hours on March 27. We have named them ‘Covid’ (boy) and ‘Corona’ (girl) for now,” Preeti Verma, the 27-old mother of the newborns, had told news agency PTI.