What’s in the name????

As always, let’s start this one off from a personal point of view .What really does my name mean to me? An identity. An all important word that allows me to exist .Or is it just a proper noun which all of us must have, coz everyone else possesses one for themselves!
Well for me is a combination of the three .But believe it or not the 13 lettered name for me has only 3 letters that I really like & the others are something with which I have to carry those 3 letters. ‘ROY’ is the part of my name which I really am obsessed with .It really gives me some pride when I’m called by that name ,its even better if I’m called Mr.Roy .But for that to be a regularity I’ve a long way to go………….

However I never blame the people who’d been instrumental in framing my name for me of course at a time, when passing on the choice to me would have been a big blunder .In Bengali ‘Suvra’ means ‘bright’ & ‘Kanta’ was a kind of legacy that was passed on. Now the first thing is why I am not too pleased with these two names .The greatest reason is the cumbersome pronunciation of the first word .Poeple just love mis-pronouncing it at their will & I’ve been so fed up that I’ve even stopped correcting them .The only way I like it these days is when the two words are pronounced together like Suvrakant (with the ‘a’ silent), I like it also coz it makes my name 12 lettered which gives a feel good appearance as 13 is the no. not many people would like to associate with themselves & nor would I .Coming on to the next part ‘ROY’,I must confess that it is the greatest gift that I’ve received in terms of a name ,maybe coz I just can’t think of a better surname than this, in any terms .Moreover Roy makes me feel royal. But the sad thing remains that hardly people call me by that name .Again I reckon that it would take some toil & establishment so as to see this happen in recent future.

There r some things about which we hardly care at times but mind it, they matter a lot .A nice & easy to pronounce name has more chances to make a person more famous than a person with a tongue twisting name .Just think about it; how many names of Chinese, Japanese or Korean leaders do u remember even if they might have been great contributors to the world .But we all remember US & English nationals by their names & surnames & nicknames & other trivial names & what not, even if they hardly had any global significance ,why? Just coz their names are easy & sexy when pronounced .

Evidently humans are more inclined to like making more friends who have euphonic names .Take for example ‘Rahul’, we all would agree that its so common a name that we(atleast I) feel sick of hearing it day in & day out .Still Shah Rukh never fails to keep this name for himself whenever he gets a chance to do so .Still whenever we come across the name ‘Rahul’ we start forming a colourful picture of the guy talked about ,even if he’s a simple ,studious book worm with round soda glasses decorating his face .On the other hand the name(with due respect to this name) ‘Rammohan Giridhari Prasad Yadhav’ would urge us to think this person as some poor rustic who’s never been into the complexities of urban life .But who knows he may be a certain college heartthrob .LOL !!!Yeah !That, only if he’s changed his name to ‘Rammo’, ‘RG’ or something even trendier.

Some people would go to any extent to prove me wrong, but even b4 u come up with ur illustrations let me warn u that, all that u r going to talk about are exceptions .Apart from that we won’t be considering changed names here .Well & aboveall whatever I’ve spoken applies most to me than anyone else .And guess what! I can’t change my name anyhow, at least until life forces me to do so .After all “What’s in the name?” is something I’ll have to believe, and maybe just one day I’d come to b counted among all the exceptions u’ve been trying to think about while reading this blog.

Signing off
Suvra(Suvrakant)