Wednesday, June 2, 2010

What's in a name?

Ever so recently, someone asked me why Sajani was called Sajani Mrinalini Dutta. Such a strange query....of course from a strange person who had no idea how 'strangely' this family operates, behaves, its ever so strange origins and even more strange customs and odd mindset.

In our family...both my maternal and my paternal... there are no simple Aruns and Malatis and Gopals. Nearly all of us have cumbersome double-barreled names. Jugal Kishore, Naba Kishore, Upendra Kishore, Birendra Kishore, Rai Kishore, Mrinalini, Subhasini. Sarojini, Labanyaprabha, Hironnyaprabha, Rajatabha, Kshirodhewar, Bireshwar, Amareshwar, Arunshwar, Sabyasachi, Sambuddha, Nirad Baran, Chittatosh, Samantyak, Ahindra Nath, Dhurjoti Prasad, Phani Bhusan.

Then there are Ananda Kishore, Aditya Kishore, Ahutagni, Shantam Kashish, Sajani Mrinalini,
Anirban Ranjan, Ashidhara, Nandini Mrinalini, Malini, Aparajit, Ayan Ranjan (not too sure about Ayan's name being Ranjan too).

There has been Udhhav Prasad, Shyama Prasad, Kirtideep and Pragyadeep. Even the littlest ones (generation 5? may be 6...) have names like Baidurjya, Taramoni (aged 7 months), Labanyaprabha (once again), Arup Prattay and Dhrub Pranay, Aalok Priyo and Rajbir Dev.

Nothing too great really, except that Sumit, Aloka, Debashish etc does not seem to appeal to us.

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