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	The Namesake - Rotten Tomatoes
		"The Namesake" is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old.
		Namesake is rough around the edges, but radiates a poignancy that's impossible to shake.
		When The Namesake focuses on the family and Gogol's struggle to understand what his father means to him, the film is a rich experience.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/namesake (1036 words)

	Namesake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Using a namesake's name is a relatively common practice in naming children, hence the large number of "Jr.", "III", etc. Names are often used in tribute to older, related persons, such as grandparents.
		Use of a namesake's name in a leadership position may indicate certain things, usually referring to certain traits of the namesake, such as in the use of papal regnal names.
		Items are also named after namesake people associated with them, such as the teddy bear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Namesake (326 words)

	Carolina Review \| Book Review: Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"
		And it is that tension between what was and what is – never far from Lahiri’s or the reader’s mind – that drives the narration, colors the drama, and shapes the lives of the novel’s characters.
		The Namesake begins by recounting the emotional struggles of an Indian husband and wife trying to make a new life in America.
		From the beginning The Namesake is a novel unconcerned with the future.
	www.unc.edu /cr/features/books/lahiri-the-namesake.html (1411 words)

	The Namesake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Namesake (2003) is the first novel by author Jhumpa Lahiri.
		The Namesake describes the struggles between first generation Bengali immigrants to the United States, and their children, particularly their son, Gogol.
		The film, The Namesake, will be released in the United States and the United Kingdom in March 2007.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Namesake (543 words)

	TheNamesake.net - Namesakes and The Namesake Movie and Novel Defined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Using a namesake's name is a relatively common practice in naming children, hence the large number of "Jr.", "III", etc. Names are often used in tribute to older, related persons, such as grandparents.
		Use of a namesake's name in a leadership position may indicate certain things, usually referring to certain traits of the namesake, such as in the use of papal regnal names.
		The Namesake describes the struggles between first generation Bengali immigrants to the United States, Ashima Ganguli (Tabu) and Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan), and their children, Gogol (Kal Penn) and Sonali (Sonia) (Sahira Nair).
	www.thenamesake.net (813 words)

	The Namesake (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A beautiful film from frame to frame and a simply tremendous cast of actors which enhanced the journey each takes to find their past, and in the end, to learn more about their future.
		As "Gogol", Kal Penn, is terrific in his part, and watching him attempt to make a life for himself, and rectify both what he wants for his own life in America, along with pleasing his parents, is a journey that has both humor and sorrow from beginning to end.
		THE NAMESAKE is rich in story, character development and direction and the locations of New York in contrast to the haunting beauty of India make the film a joy to watch.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0433416 (441 words)

	Namesake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Namesake and Geelia are brother and sister, living at Salt Spring Way BandB on Salt Spring Island in Canada.
		Namesake loves to roll on the stairs, dig his claws in and pull himself to the other end of the stair, fall down a stair or two, and do it all over again.
		When the frog was about to reach the grass and safety, Namesake picked him up in his mouth, brought him back to the start of the patio, and sat down to watch again.
	www.shopcat.com /saltspringway/namesake.htm (192 words)

	The Namesake; ISBN-10: 0395927218 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.
		In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
		With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=681425 (340 words)

	NPR : Mira Nair Brings 'The Namesake' to Film
		Morning Edition, March 9, 2007 · The Namesake, the latest movie from filmmaker Mira Nair, uses the immigrant experience to explore the meaning of identity.
		At the heart of The Namesake is a name — Gogol, a Russian name, after the writer Nikolai Gogol.
		The name holds deep meaning for the father of the family, but his son carries it as a burden until his father reveals from where it came.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=7728772&sc=emaf (552 words)

	The Namesake (2006)
		In the nearly twenty years since she made a prodigious directorial debut with the Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), filmmaker Mira Nair has chalked up a frustratingly erratic number of film, with the misses (The Perez Family, Kama Sutra, Vanity Fair) sadly outnumbering the hits (Monsoon Wedding).
		Her latest film, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's precisely observed 2003 novel The Namesake, is an unfocused and overly episodic drama that emotionally truncates what could have been a richly textured saga of an Indian family torn between assimilation and tradition.
		Working with her longtime collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala (Mississippi Masala), Nair is unable to draw a consistent narrative through-line in The Namesake, a patchily affecting film further marred by its wobbly tone and Kal Penn's superficial performance in the title role.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=143230&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (731 words)

	The Namesake Review at Hollywood.com
		But The Namesake, which marks his debut as a dramatic lead, represents an invaluable opportunity for him to paint a more truthful portrait of how first-generation Indian Americans are torn between family traditions and life in their parentsâ adopted homeland.
		This loss should have provided Nair with the impetus to swiftly wrap up the proceedings, but she drags things out much longer than necessary, and youâre left with the impression that Gogol is being needlessly put through the wringer.
		Still, The Namesake manages to be a thoughtful examination of a man struggling to straddle two different cultures.
	www.hollywood.com /review/The_Namesake/3667530 (982 words)

	Depth of family is in 'The Namesake' - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Namesake is an engaging and moving film with a universal story about the bonds of family as told through two generations of a Bengali family.
		She authentically captures the immigrant experience as well as the sense that first-generation American children of immigrant parents feel of having a foot in two cultures.
		The Namesake elicits laughter and tears in its profound and emotionally resonant family portrait.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2007-03-08-the-namesake_N.htm?csp=34 (511 words)

	Amazon.com: The Namesake: A Novel: Books: Jhumpa Lahiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gogol is the novel's center and its primary perspective, the namesake of the title.
		Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's THE NAMESAKE is the tale of immigrants who come from India and raise their family in America, a country they adopt, all the while keeping their own traditions intact.
		THE NAMESAKE I felt was the perfectly written book, a story which encompassed the immigrant experience from the first generation (Ashoke and Ashima) and the second (Gogol and his sister Sonia).
	www.amazon.com /Namesake-Novel-Jhumpa-Lahiri/dp/0618485228 (2688 words)

	The Namesake is excellent
		The event was Indian American to the core, with its celebrities thronging the hall and delaying the performance by chatting away much beyond the social hour.
		What sets The Namesake apart from the other Indian nostalgia-cum-rebellion movies is the sensitivity with which the writer Jhumpa Lahiri and the director Mira Nair have treated the story.
		But The Namesake is sure to be received well when it is commercially released early next year.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/nov/03tps.htm (988 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Namesake
		The title The Namesake reflects the struggles Gogol Ganguli goes through to identify with his unusual names.
		Jhumpa Lahiri has said of The Namesake, "America is a real presence in the book; the characters must struggle and come to terms with what it means to live here, to be brought up here, to belong and not belong here." Did The Namesake allow you to think of America in a new way?
		Jhumpa Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=namesake_rg (921 words)

	Namesake Recording » Welcome to Namesake Recording! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Namesake Recording is a mobile-based recording studio located in Baton Rouge, LA. Our goal is to to provide a high quality and enjoyable recording experience at an affordable price.
		Namesake Recording has a versatile mobile setup that can record at a variety of venues and events - ranging from live concerts and rehearsals to church functions and weddings.
		Our home studio contains a control room with a variety of analog and digital equipment along with an iso booth for overdubs and vocals.
	www.namesakerecording.com (82 words)

	Pressman Toy Instructions - Namesake
		Be the first player or team to reach and complete The Final Namesake square.
		Douglas may be shortened to Doug UNLESS the Namesake card specifies that a short form is NOT acceptable.
		Namesake is manufactured and distributed in the U.S. by Pressman Toy Corporation under exclusive license from For Jessica's Sake Inc. The trademarks Namesake, Nameoff and NameDrop, the distinctive design of the game, and related proprietary rights are registered trademarks of For Jessica's Sake Inc.
	www.pressmangames.com /instructions/instruct_namesake.html (1296 words)

	Ishbadiddle: 0698200985:The Namesake
		The young man, Alfred, is indeed lame (one-legged, in fact, which in the 9th C was unusual enough that he is regarded with superstition) and he does in fact have that vision -- to give "what is under his hand" to his namesake, in order to become master of his affliction rather than its servant.
		His namesake is Alfred, brother of the King of Wessex, Ethelred, who eventually succeeds the throne and becomes Alfred the Great.
		Most of the book is not, as I remembered, the boy Alfred's quest to find his namesake, but rather what happens after -- how the King takes him in and teaches him to write, and how he helps in the wars against the invading Danes.
	triptronix.net /ishbadiddle/archives/2006/11/12/14.41.40/default.asp (851 words)

	The Namesake - Movie Reviews, Photos & Videos, Layouts, & Fan Club \| Flixster
		Plot: "The Namesake" is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old.
		The namesake element of the film seemed to me to be the weakest but it was nice to see the story evolve fairly organically throughout rather than being driven in.
		It was also a little hard for me to get over Kal Penn as anyone other than Kumar and while he doesn't 100% succeed, he is still quite solid in the role nonetheless.
	www.flixster.com /movie/the-namesake (395 words)

	Book Reviews - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
		Jhumpa Lahiri (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies) has written a novel about immigrant lives, families, and bonds that can never be broken.
		The Namesake has received high praise from most reviewers.
		Michiko Kakutani begins her review for the New York Times, "Jhumpa Lahiri's quietly dazzling new novel, The Namesake, is that rare thing: an intimate, closely observed family portrait that effortlessly and discreetly unfolds to disclose a capacious social vision."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /namesake (186 words)

	USS New Orleans Commissioned in Namesake City
		The ship holds the distinction of being the only ship in recent naval history built and commissioned in its namesake city.
		The celebration of the first ship to be built and commissioned in her namesake city began with a 19 gun salute.
		The ship is the fourth ship to bear the name New Orleans and is the second ship to be commissioned in its class.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=28240 (631 words)

	The Namesake \| Movie Review \| Entertainment Weekly
		Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW When a director is as humane as Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), it's easy to think of her gift as the ''simple'' ability to bathe everyone on screen in a glow of understanding.
		The Namesake is sometimes too sketchy — you want more of the episodes, never less — yet it's a movie that will speak to anyone who has ever felt pulled in different directions by his own heart.
		The Q&A Mira Nair on ''The Namesake'' (Mar 09, 2007)
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,20014255,00.html (710 words)

	The Namesake Movie Review - The Namesake Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		These are the questions "The Namesake" asks, and as vast as they are, Nair finds her answers in the smallest details of living.
		"The Namesake" eventually comes to ground in the alien landscape of Nyack, N.Y., where the Gangulis move to raise their two children.
		But "The Namesake" is entertaining and alert, a production fully felt in a way that Nair's last movie, the misconceived Reese Witherspoon vehicle "Vanity Fair," only approximated.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=9182 (1004 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		I believe G.W.B. is the namesake, but I have seen it used the other way around both of them and others.
		Thus, George W. Bush the son is the namesake of George H.W. Bush the father, and George Bush the father is the namesake of George Bush the son.
		The usual use of the word namesake is 'a person named for another', so that the second name-holder, rather than the original name-holder, is the namesake.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990610 (284 words)

	The Namesake Blog
		The Los Angeles Press Day for "The Namesake" went well - it was nice to have the opportunity to talk about a film that has been close to me since the first time I read the book upon which it's based.
		The Festival itself was a great opportunity to see films that aren't distributed as widely in North America, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear moving feedback from folks from Lebanon, Palestine, the UAE, Bahrain, and Iran.
		International release dates for "The Namesake" vary, but I believe the film opens in India on the 24th of March, 2007.
	thenamesake.typepad.com /blog (1814 words)

	Reader's Guide for The Namesake published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri's critically acclaimed first novel is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates her signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations.
		The Namesake opens with Ashima Ganguli trying to make a spicy Indian snack from American ingredients — Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts — but "as usual, there's something missing." How does Ashima try and make over her home in Cambridge to remind her of what she's left behind in Calcutta?
		Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake, was a major national bestseller and was named the New York Magazine Book of the Year.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /readers_guides/lahiri_namesake.shtml (2637 words)

	Rolling Stone : The Namesake : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cultural assimilation is a specialty for Mira Nair, the India-born, Manhattan-based director who found the right balance in Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding and soars with her film version of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake.
		In Calcutta, circa the 1970s, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) agree to an arranged marriage and to starting their new lives in Manhattan.
		It takes a family tragedy to give Gogol a sense of himself and his namesake.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/10378883/review/13711944/the_namesake (245 words)

	Namesake – Music at Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Namesake isn’t yet available to play on Last.fm radio.
		Music Journals on Last.fm You can be the first person to write a journal about Namesake.
		Namesake might not be making music anymore, but if they are, you can help keep other users informed by adding new events when they're announced.
	www.last.fm /music/Namesake (562 words)

	Out of the Overcoat - New York Times
		They will never fail you.'' On his way to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Ashoke is dutifully rereading his favorite story, Nikolai Gogol's ''Overcoat,'' when his train derails.
		Like its hero, ''The Namesake'' is perhaps a little overawed by the power of names.
		As he enters adolescence, Gogol, along with his friends -- Colin and Jason and Marc -- like to ''listen to records together, to Dylan and Clapton and the Who, and read Nietzsche in their spare time.'' Dylan, Clapton, the Who -- yep, right, check, dead on.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E4DE123AF93BA1575AC0A9659C8B63 (588 words)

	The Namesake (Unabridged) -- Jhumpa Lahiri
		The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs.
		Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT.
		Condensed and controlled, The Namesake covers three decades and crosses continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and fine nuances of character.
	www.audible.com /adbl/store/CJProduct.jsp?productID=BK_RAND_000315 (348 words)

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