Bhosari, Chorpura, Chudel... India's most 'unwanted' village names

Chudel, Tatti Khana, Kattianwali, Durjanpur, Chorpura…this isn’t a list of expletives. These are Indian villages saddled with swear words and scatological references as their names. Little wonder that they are rebelling against it. And before you get all Shakespeare about it (‘what’s in a name’ etc), ask Rajesh Kumar. Kumar, a resident of Chorpura village in Rajasthan’s Dholpur district, mournfully explains how the ‘shehr ke log’ (city people) give him strange glances every time he mentions where he lives. Head to TOI+ to read this story on villages with weird names and how it affects the lives of its residents.