'Rakhi' - Pakistani fan christens the India-Pakistan series
Tanya Aldred of The Guardian had called it as the tandoori ashes and now a Pakistani, Dr Saeed Durrani of Islamabad, in a letter to editor in the The Daily times , Pakistani daily, suggests ' Rakhi ', after rejecting words like Khak and Khakister
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
Tanya Aldred of The Guardian had called it as the tandoori ashes and now a Pakistani, Dr Saeed Durrani of Islamabad, in a letter to editor in the The Daily times, Pakistani daily, suggests 'Rakhi', after rejecting words like Khak and Khakister. 'Rakhi' is a symbol of bond between a brother and sister and that raises the question which nation has been regarded as masculine and which feminine? Hmm...? Never mind, read the doctor's letter.
Cricket matches between India and Pakistan arouse great passions on both sides. Several prominent cricketers and others have suggested that these two start regular contests on the lines of the Ashes series of Test matches between arch-rivals England and Australia. The question then arises: what name should we to give to such contests? I considered – and rejected – words such as khak and khakister – for they are likely to prove difficult to pronounce for our Indian counterparts, besides being too Persianised. I then hit upon the idea of conferring upon these series of Test matches the Hindi/Urdu name Rakhi. This term not only resembles the word rakh (ashes) – but also denotes in Hindi a ‘bond’ that stands for love as well as protection.