Talk:Prakash Padukone

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I believe Ramesh Padukone deserves his own page, for all he contributed to Indian badminton...

I agree with you. Ramesh Padukone was a pioneer in the badminton world, and he stayed involved till the very end. I hope someone can write up something about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.84.160 (talk) 05:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Correct pronunciation of Padukone.
The 'e' in Padukone is silent. The correct pronunciation of Padukone is पडुकोण ( IPA pəɖʊkoːɳ] ). Prakash Padukone is an ethnic Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin (CSB), who are Konkani-speaking people settled on the coastal belt of Karnataka. 'Padukone' is pronounced as पडुकोण ( IPA pəɖʊkoːɳ] ) in Konkani (specifically the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin dialect of Konkani). The actual village of Padukone may be pronounced as 'padu-ko-nay' today, but CSB's with the Padukone surname pronounce it as 'padu-cone'. The way CSB's pronounce it today most accurately reflects the pronunciation that was in use 250 years ago. His surname indicates that one of his forefathers worked as an administrator of the Padukone village or that they were at one time settled in that village. It doesn't necessarily mean that his family hails from the Padukone village. His daughter, Deepika herself confirms that the 'e' in Padukone is silent. Please see this link http://www.missmalini.com/2009/07/13/deepika-does-good/. The very first line confirms this. --Bhanap1708 (talk) 14:15, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * That post is a blog post, and cannot be considered as a reliable source. WP:RS. MikeLynch (talk) 15:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Again, can someone correct the kannada script over there, it currently reads 'Padukona'. MikeLynch (talk) 15:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)


 * MikeLynch - Feel free to correct the Kannada script to reflect Padukone (e silent). My knowledge of the Kannada script is NIL, so I assumed that removing the 'e' vowel from the script would do it. Seems like that wasn't right either. As far as the correct pronunciation is concerned, the link above may be a blog post, but it seems to be a genuine media blog where the blog operator is involved with interviewing Bollywood personalities(Check their Twitter account). Besides, there is no other place (that I know of) where Deepika Padukone or her father clarify how the surname is actually pronounced. --Bhanap1708 (talk) 22:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Mentioning Caste
Dear Editors! There has been a discussion on India Portal related to mentioning of caste of subjects. The point is that mentioning caste of people, who have nothing to do with their caste, is found to be unnecessary by few editors. Hence the caste of the subject person needs to be deleted from the biography. I am not deleting the caste as of now but am only posting this here so that the regular editors of this article are well aware of it beforehand and no edit-wars take place. For details of discussion held on the portal please refer Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics. Your views if any are welcome there or even here. And.... as the reasons of exclusion of caste pointed out were "irrelavant to notability of subject person", "privacy of the subject person", "inclusion of caste is like branding individuals", etc. other information included in the article which also fall under these cases will also be removed after discussions. Examples of it included religion, non-notable spouse's and children's and parents' information, previous occupation, lived in places, non-notability related educational qualification, etc. Your views on this are also welcome here or at the India portal. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 17:05, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Not here, please. There is a community discussion taking place at WT:INB and I would advise people to read the entire discussion before forming an opinion because the above summary is incorrect. Nothing more need be said here. - Sitush (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)