Ecstatic Gaucho

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

Especially when that name is Einstein Napoleon! Well, there’s an young Indian cricket player who’s playing in the Under 19 World Cup 2008 with just that name – and the nickname ‘Einy’. He must have some super ambitious parents to name him after the genius who revolutionised physics, but how did a South Indian family come to have the surname ‘Bonaparte‘, that byword for megalamania and small man syndrome?

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