Like all the women in today’s world, I had the choice of whether to change my last name after marriage or not. I had told my husband before marriage that I would never change. Not because of any feminist view, simply because my name had been my identity since my childhood and I did not [...]
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To change or not to change
Posted in Tradition, tagged Lastname, Marriage, Surname on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Jhumpa Lahiri’s famous book “Namesake” touched upon something which was so natural to me that I never thought of it as an issue. Everyone from north-east India has at least two names – one by which he or she is called in the family (the “pet name”) and the other by which he or she [...]
