Taimur Is Just a Name, Can We Please Let Go of the Hate?
The Twitter duniya isn’t happy with Saifeena’s decision to name their newborn baby boy Taimur.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan have a baby boy! Yay!
Except not so yay because they've named him Taimur and the world, or at least the Twitter duniya, isn't happy. As usual.
Kyun? Kyunki India has history with the name. Timur invaded India, sacked Delhi, killing thousands.
So how dare Saifeena not know history or not care?
Must be because Saif's Muslim and this Kareena thing is Love Jihad?
Which sounds like a great conspiracy theory but...
Adolf Hitler was Roman Catholic and killed millions. Pol Pot was Buddhist, killed millions. Stalin and Mao were both atheists and killed millions. The Americans killed native Indians, Ashoka the Great killed thousands in Kalinga. In medieval India, Rajput kings fought and killed each other.
So, Timur never held the sole copyright over being a blood-thirsty leader, we’ve had many!
What the hell, even George W Bush launched a war that killed thousands. I'm pretty sure people didn't stop naming their kids George.
The English King Henry the 8th beheaded half his wives yet there are millions of Henrys.
And the Mahabharata? Cousins on a killing spree and yet I know a Karan, Arjun AND a Nakul.
Aur yeh Shakespeare, no, he didn't launch a campaign.
But he did ask, "What's in a name?"
Maybe it’s time to retire the hate, not the name and who knows? Maybe Taimur Ali Khan will work in the future for the cause of peace. Unlike his namesake?
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