This is a reference book that will help parents to name their children, authors to name their characters, property developers and manufacturers to name products…in short, it will help anyone to name anything. This is the largest book every published on the subject with more than 30,000 names of Sanskrit origin. The names are written in both English and Devanagiri, with their meanings given in English. It contains, besides the master list of 30,000 names, twenty-five subsections listing the names attributed to deities of the Hindu pantheon and certain human emotions and qualities. Reader-friendly and highly informative, this is the definitive book on Indian names. About the Author M.V. Kamath is a journalist and author with more than forty-five books to his credit. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Mangalore University and is presently the Honorary Director of the Manipal Institute of Communications. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004. Dr Kalindi Randeri has been an educationist and scholar for more than four decades. She is the founder principal of the P.V. Polytechnic of the S.N.D.T. Women’s University in Mumbai, where she introduced courses in fashion and jewellery designing. Widely travelled, she is the recipient of many awards and has authored books in collaboration with M.V. Kamath.