Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure

It seems really distasteful to take the name of an important religious and cultural figure from a different country and appropriate it for some pet project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama

Except it has other meanings, not necessarily the Supreme Being. From the link you shared:

Rāma is a Vedic Sanskrit word with two contextual meanings. In one context, as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, it means "dark, dark-colored, black" and is related to the term ratri, which means night. In another context in other Vedic texts, the word means "pleasing, delightful, charming, beautiful, lovely"

And neither of these meanings are relevant to the project, nor have these meanings been widespread for at least last 2000 years.

It's named after the Arthur C. Clarke book.

It’s also the concatenation of two, extremely common syllables, so purely by chance one is ought to hit them. Like, where I’m from its the name of a margarine brand - is it also misappropriating?

Why do they have to be widespread?

A genuine question, why is that a bad thing? The worst thing that could happen is someone would get curious about the word and try to learn more about it, consequently reading about Hindu mythology.

There's tons of material in Hinduism + Buddhism would be amazing if adapted in books/movies/shows/games, but it hasn't happened because everyone seems to be so touchy about it (despite the fact that the religion itself doesn't have a singular book, god or commandments specifying what's good/bad).

Also before the usual retort comes back, my family is Hindu.