You are right! Kaveri is a river in India and Kolaveri does mean something synonymous with Rage or 'intense passion/anger' in colloquial tamil. Only tamil is

You are right! Kaveri is a river in India and Kolaveri does mean something synonymous with Rage or 'intense passion/anger' in colloquial tamil. Only tamil is not a dialect of Indian. An interesting tidbit. There are hundreds of languages spoken in different parts of India. From wikipedia, Individual mother tongues in India number several hundreds;[9] the 1961 census recognized 1,652[10] (SIL Ethnologue lists 415). According to Census of India of 2001, 30 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000 All that aside, I'm curious to know about the origin of this name.