Newborn Baby Girls Named After Cyclone ‘Titli’ In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone ‘Titli ’, which made the landfall near Palasa along the northern coast of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of October 11, that brought damaging winds and heavy rain, showered joy for some.

Parents in some areas, which were not much affected by the severe cyclonic storm, have named their newborn baby girls as ‘Titli’ in remembrance of the day it struck the land and left behind a trail of devastation.

At the time, when the state was experiencing the impact of the disaster ‘Titli’, simultaneously many baby girls were also born. Interestingly, parents appeared to be fascinated by the word Titli, which is a Pakistani term for butterfly.

According to the sources, some parents in Aska in Ganjam district, in Bhubaneswar and Jagatsinghpur district have named their daughters ‘Titli’.

One Geetanjali Gouda gave birth a baby girl at Kalasuta village of Aska in Ganjam district. When Geetanjali started having labour pain, her family members took her to Aska Community Health Centre. Then one Titli was born at the hospital on Thursday.

Another ‘Titli’ was born at the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar. She is the daughter of one Sushant Das and Reshma of Bharatpur here. The couple was blessed with a daughter, when the cyclone made the landfall.

One Kalyani Nayak also gave birth her ‘Titli’ the same day.

In Jagatsinghpur district headquarters hospital, as many as 17 babies were born on Thursday. Most of the baby girls’ mothers are interested to name their daughters after ‘Titli’, though they were in a panic as news of the disaster that followed poured in.

Devi Prasad Das in Nayagarh district is also interested to call his newborn child ‘Titli’.

At Hinjli community health centre, Saraswati Sahu delivered at baby girl at about 7 am on Thursday and soon after the hospital staff started calling her ‘Titli’.