For so many years, I had been thinking what is there in a name, until the day when I had to fill up my passport application form. My parents never had the foresight that his son would one day apply for passport and travel abroad . They named me just plain Srinivasan and called me Cheenu as is vogue in Tamilnadu.
The confusion arose which name , I should fill up in which column. First name, Given name, Sur name , middle name etc. Always I thought, First name is my name, Srinivasan. In my SSLC Certificate it was just N Srinivasan. Somehow I filled up the form, got my passport with my father's name first and my name appearing second. NARAYANAN SRINIVASAN and my wife's with my name first, SRINIVASAN HEMAMALINI.
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