When he stopped name dropping nuisance!

HARISH MONGA

Some people are in the habit of knowingly inserting references of famous people or institutions into a conversation in order to see more important to the listener.

IT IS AN ART WITH FEW 

While many people consider it as an interesting art, it is mulled over a negative or offensive quality. We all might have met such persons in our lives who at the slightest pretext would punctuate their talk by putting a reference of high-ups or high connections having no relevancy with the discussions going on the particular subject or irrespective o the need and context.

IMPACT OF NAME-DROPPING

When you start noticing it particularly, you will see that this practice of name-dropping is fast catching up with more and more people and Indians, especially the Punjabis have an art of becoming champion by following this practice. One of my professional friends is so habitual of throwing big names that anybody who meets him for the first time is impressed by his aura of showy life. But whosoever is aware of his habit often avoid him. Stories of telling that so and so bureaucrats and renowned corporate personalities are his bosom friends always remain common in the social circle of our city. This infection of name-dropping has bitten most of the lower and middle level politicians in our country.

WHEN RELUCTANT TO NAME-DROPPING

While many youth Congressmen are never tired of telling their proximity to 10 Janpath or Parliament Annexes, many BJP and Akali workers at village level, often say that they have special blessings of Amit shah and Badals and now with the change of the government to Raja or Capt Amarinder Singh. But so far Babas are concerned; now with the involvement of Babas, such people are reluctant of their name-dropping in their discussions with the reasons best known to them.

NAME DROPPING PREVELENT IN CIRCLES…
Even this habit of name-dropping is also prevalent in literary circles as many of the writers and poets, who have not crossed the municipal limits, a few of them always remain bent upon boring us to tears by dropping names of national celebrities as their admirers.

WHAT PLSYCHOLOGISTS SAY?
According to the psychologists, name-dropping habit comes as a behavioural disorder arising out of hidden inferiority complex. Most of the time, this habit becomes an uncontrollable habit when a man by sheer luck achieves something which hardly deserves.

FRANKLY SPEAKING

Frankly speaking, I know a very renowned family with political backgrounds once approached the bureaucrats to favour an employee. Before saying anything by the Big Babu, he said, I know he is not good on your record. Had he been, there was no need of my approaching you.

MY TESTING THE FRIEND

I had never bothered for the nuisance called name-dropping but just as a test case when I asked a close friend of mine, who was in the habit of boasting, to refer my personal case to the particular bureaucrat for favorable consideration, he not only regretted having no equation rather admitted of having developed the habit of name-dropping into a conversation just to impress the other persons involved in the tete-a-tete. But my testing the friend, he stopped making his name-dropping habit, at least in my presence