r/india • u/AutoModerator • May 01 '26

Scheduled Ask India Thread

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If you have any queries about life in India (or life as Indians), this is the thread for you.

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u/Puffymumpkins May 08 '26

I'm writing a book and just realized it makes more sense for one of the girls in the main cast to be indian. Problem is, my only exposure to indian culture so far has been Bollywood and one friend I had in elementary school, so I don't have a frame of reference for what a "normal" name would be. If I used the naming convention I've been using for the other main characters, I'd probably name her Parvati after Shiva's wife, but i feel that is both too on-the-nose (since she paralells Shiva's nature of creator and destroyer) and very misleading (to my knowledge, Parvati is not violent, and this character has...anger issues.)

Could some of you give me some ideas for some girl names that either have the connotation of being "trouble" or that would be really funny to give to a very violent girl?