# Potential SCOTUS Nominee Sri Srinivasan's family comes from the coolest village **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148 "2016-03-16T10:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/1 "2016-03-16T10:21:41Z")
The location listed on the byline of the NYTimes article I just read about the potential nominee’s links to his family’s original town? [QUOTE=NYTimes] **MELA THIRUVENKATANATHAPURAM** , India [/QUOTE] Oh yeah! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/2 "2016-03-16T10:49:40Z")
He’d also be the first Hindu justice. I’d imagine the first Hindu to hold ANY significant post in the federal government unless I’m mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/3 "2016-03-16T10:52:34Z")
Very fitting name/subject match for that OP. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/4 "2016-03-16T11:22:54Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > The location listed on the byline of the NYTimes article I just read about the potential nominee’s links to his family’s original town? > > Oh yeah! 😉 Of course it’s cool - it’s got a katana right in the middle! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/5 "2016-03-16T12:12:10Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Very fitting name/subject match for that OP. I don’t know, **Nava** - does that count as a “word”? 😉 😉 And given the recent AP alert, we are going to find out today at 11am ET if he’s the guy. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/6 "2016-03-16T13:06:38Z")
The best part of that is the correction that the NYT wrote: Correction: March 15, 2016 An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of a village in India where the family of Sri Srinivasan once lived. The village is Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, not Mela Thiruvenkanathapuram. Oddly enough, only the misspelled name is underlined in my browser’s spellchecker. Who programs these things? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/7 "2016-03-16T13:09:04Z")
_Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram is the thing to say On a bright Indian Christmas day…_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/8 "2016-03-16T13:12:52Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I don’t know, **Nava** - does that count as a “word”? 😉 😉 Given there’s a space, I’d say it counts as two. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/9 "2016-03-16T13:24:20Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Correction: March 15, 2016 > > An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of a village in India where the family of Sri Srinivasan once lived. The village is Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, not Mela Thiruvenkanathapuram. Yeah, it’s like that old mnemonic: don’t forget the katana in Thiruvenkatanathapuram ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/10 "2016-03-16T14:12:57Z")
…and: it’s not him. Over in Elections I started a thread about who is being leaked to the press prior to the 11am announcement: Merrick Garland. **astorian** , I hadn’t caught that correction. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/11 "2016-03-17T23:56:23Z")
This place is a _must_ for the “A - Z World Cities” game in “Thread Games”… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-scotus-nominee-sri-srinivasans-family-comes-from-the-coolest-village/749148/12 "2016-03-18T04:18:21Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > He’d also be the first Hindu justice. I’d imagine the first Hindu to hold ANY significant post in the federal government unless I’m mistaken. From Americans United For Separation of Church and State, January 2013: [So Help Me, Gods? Presidents And Other Public Officials Can Take Their Oaths On A Bible, The Bhagavad Gita, Or Even A Lawbook](https://www.au.org/church-state/january-2013-church-state/featured/so-help-me-gods) > [@](#): > > This month, U.S. Rep.-elect Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), the first Hindu member of Congress, will take the oath on a copy of the Bhagavad Gita. There will likely be more grumbling from the Religious Right. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum this summer told supporters of his presidential campaign that equality is a uniquely Christian concept that “doesn’t come from the East and Eastern religions.” > > Gabbard, a veteran of the Iraq War, dismissed such comments. > > “It is stunning that some people in Congress would so arrogantly thumb their nose at the Bill of Rights,” she said. “When I volunteered to put my life on the line in defense of our country, no one asked me what my religion was.”