Numero Ocho - The Number 8

 

"Cursed by birth?" I thought as the person told me that the number 26 was unlucky. The name change was the only option.

Numerology! 2 + 6 = 8. Eight is considered an unlucky number. Who should I blame now? I am in search of our ancient practitioners who introduced Shashtanga namaskar and Ashtanga yoga. If I try to translate the number that might come out of these words, the numerologist might hate me.

Well, I would like to do Shashtanga Namaskaram to those who think number 8 is terrible. I surrender!

I love maths. Well, if you like decoding you might see infinity in the number 8. Does it mean that they have infinite energy? My inner voice said, "how convenient." 

"Wait a minute, are you trying to prove that number 8 is good?" the question snapped in. 

I know that you have already started searching online. Worst of all, you have already started looking out for people born on this date - 8, 17 and 26. 

That's when the most significant revelation came out - the slow growth of Indian economy. 26 was the reason. A simple numerology would have saved an entire economy. 

The numerologist knew that I did not have an answer on Indian Economy (I am a Computer Science Student). Cornered, confused and concerned, I had just one option - change my name. The number of alphabets in my new name should be 8. You see negative and negative becomes positive. 

What do you think? If you were born of 8, 17 or 26 let me know your views. If you too feel that you were unlucky, let the blessings of Ashta Lakshmi be showered on you.

By the way, I am thinking of a new name for India!

List of famous personalities born of 8, 17 or 26. (Source - Wikipedia)

S No	Name	Date of Birth	Month of Birth	Fields of Specialization	Achievements
1	Jagjit Singh	8	February	Arts	Ghazhal Singer
2	Lalgudi Jayarama Iyer	17	September	Arts	Violinist
3	Lakshminarayanan Shankar	26	April	Arts	Violinist
4	Prasanna Pandian K	26	February	Arts	Artist, Architect and Animator
5	Periyasaami Thooran	26	September	Arts	Tamil Poet, Freedom Fighter
6	Bangalore Venkata Raman (B V Raman)	8	August	Astrology	Great astrologer, Editor of "The Astrological Magazine" Founder of Raman & Rajeswari Research Foundation
7	Kalpana Chawla	17	March	Astronomy	Astronaut.
8	Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala	8	September	Business	Entrepreneurs, Philanthropist
9	Akkineni Akhil	8	April	Cinema	Actor
10	Allu Arjun	8	April	Cinema	Actor
11	Pandi	8	April	Cinema	Actor
12	Manobala	8	December	Cinema	Actor, Director
13	Harris Jayaraj	8	January	Cinema	Music Composer
14	Tarun	8	January	Cinema	Actor
15	Tarun	8	January	Cinema	Actor
16	Revathi	8	July	Cinema	Actress
17	Sukanya	8	July	Cinema	Actress
18	Adith Arun	8	June	Cinema	Actor
19	Shilpa Shetty	8	June	Cinema	Actress
20	Joseph Panimayadas Chandrababu Rodriguez	8	March	Cinema	Comedian, Actor, Director, Singer and Dancer
21	Manchu Laxmi	8	October	Cinema	Actress
22	Siddharth Suryanarayanan	17	April	Cinema	Actor, Producer, Play back singer
23	Sunaina	17	April	Cinema	Actress
24	Vikram	17	April	Cinema	Actor
25	Shankar	17	August	Cinema	Director
26	Sharat Saxena	17	August	Cinema	Actor
27	Adivi Sesh	17	December	Cinema	Actor, Director
28	Disha Pandey	17	January	Cinema	Actress
29	Javed Akhtar	17	January	Cinema	Poet, Lyricist, Screen Writer
30	Periyamayathevar Bharathiraja	17	July	Cinema	Actor, Director
31	Vishnu Vishal	17	July	Cinema	Actor
32	Arvind Swami	17	June	Cinema	Actor
33	Charmi	17	May	Cinema	Actress
34	Charmy Kaur	17	May	Cinema	Actress
35	Jamuna Rani K	17	May	Cinema	Playback Singer
36	Ganapathi Subramania Sarma (Gemini Ganesan)	17	November	Cinema	Actor
37	Roja Selvamani	17	November	Cinema	Actress
38	Keerthy Suresh	17	October	Cinema	Actress
39	Pranitha	17	October	Cinema	Actress
40	Pranitha Subhash	17	October	Cinema	Actress
41	Priya Anand	17	September	Cinema	Actress
42	Samuthirakani P	26	April	Cinema	Actor, Director
43	Rajkiran (Mohideen Abdul Khadar)	26	August	Cinema	Actor
44	Kirat Bhattal	26	January	Cinema	Actress
45	Ravi Teja	26	January	Cinema	Actor
46	Abhirami	26	July	Cinema	Actress
47	Chinni Jayanth	26	July	Cinema	`
48	Suresh Gopi	26	June	Cinema	Actor
49	Madhoo Shah (Madhoobala Raghunath)	26	March	Cinema	Actress
50	Prakash Raj	26	March	Cinema	Actor
51	Manorama (Gopishantha)	26	May	Cinema	Actress. Has acted in more than 1500 movies
52	Archana Puran Singh	26	September	Cinema	Actress
53	Devan	8	January	Cinema & Politics	Actor and Politician
54	Seeman	8	November	Cinema & Politics	Movie Director, Actor, Writer, Chief Coordinator of Naam Tamilar Katchi, Tamil Nationalist
55	Jayasudha Kapoor	17	December	Cinema & Politics	Actress, Politician
56	Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (MGR)	17	January	Cinema & Politics	Actor, Producer, Director, Politician. Chief Minister of the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, Cultural Icon
57	Sattanathapuram Venkataraman Shekhar	26	December	Cinema & Politics	Playwright and Film Actor, Politician
58	Jyotindra Nath Dixit	8	January	Diplomat	Foreign Secretary of India, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
59	Gopalan Kasturi	17	December	Journalism	Longest serving editor of "The Hindu"
60	Velupillai Prabhakaran	26	November	Military & Politics	Founder of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
61	Prof. Col. A. Balasubramanian	26	April	Philanthrophy	Founder, Sri Balaji Society - Pune
62	Jyoti Basu	8	July	Politics	Chief Minister for 23 consecutive years of the Indian State of West Bengal
63	Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR)	8	July	Politics	Two time Chief Minister of the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh
64	Vasanthi Stanley	8	May	Politics	Member of the Parliament of India, Journalist, Writer
65	Lal Krishna Advani	8	November	Politics	Former Deputy Prime Minister of India Co-founder of Bharatiya Janata Party
66	Thol. Thirumavalavan	17	August	Politics	President of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK)
67	Erode Venkata Ramasamy (Periyar)	17	September	Politics	Social Activist and Politician. Founder of Dravida Kazhagam
68	Narendra Modi	17	September	Politics	Prime Minister of India from 2014 - Till date Chief Minister of the Indan State of Gujarat from 2001 - 2014
69	Veerapandi S Arumugam	26	January	Politics	Veteran Politician of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
70	Aruna Roy	26	June	Politics	Political and Social Activist
71	Manmohan Singh	26	September	Politics	Economist, Prime Minister of India from 2004 - 2014
72	T. M. Thomas Isaac	26	September	Politics	Minister of Finance of the Indian State of Kerela
73	Swami Abhedanandaji Maharaj	8	April	Spiritual	Founder of Abhedashrams where incessant recital of the Maha Mantra of Kali Santarana Upanishad takes place
74	Balaji Ramachandran	8	August	Spiritual	Volunteer of Global Organization for Divinity
75	Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati	8	May	Spiritual	Founder of Chinmaya Mission Co-founder of Vishva Hindu Parishad
76	Constanzo Beschi (Vīramāmunivar)	8	November	Spiritual	Christian Missionary and Classical writer of Tamil Literature
77	Swami Sivananda Saraswati	8	September	Spiritual	Founder of the Divine Life Society , Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta, and a variety of subjects. Established Sivananda Ashram
78	Swami Omkarananda	8	February	Spiritual	Spiritual Scholar at Sri Swami Chidbhavananda Ashramam
79	Madhavan	8		Spiritual	Vedic Scholar
80	Ramanan	8		Spiritual	Vedic Scholar
81	Nirupama Sanjeev	8	December	Sports	Professional Tennis Player
82	Ravichandran Ashwin	17	September	Sports	International Cricketer