Unlike we Indians, people around the world, who do the naming of the child is done as soon as its born, in ours we have a certain traditions where the a child is named in the naming ceremony, taking into consideration the date, the time the child was born or named after there grand parents or ancestors in order to keep the family legacy going !!!!
As we grow up we change in all the regards with the influence of the society and friends, in the mean time we would have been given hell a lot of names and naming ceremonies would have happened :P. We would be given names based on our appearance or the place we come from, community we come from and on what not!!! Its very strange to be named again and again, but its very much true and have accepted it in our life.
It so happened I had been to a reunion, and was just busy meeting all the friends, one among them just came to me and said your Prathap Shoroff right???? I was in complete shock!!, as I didn't recognize that person and secondly I was called by my complete name...!! After few more minutes of discussion with that person I just realized who that was only by that persons name, not by the face, that person was my class mate in 3rd standard!!!
Many such incidents have happened in my life where people recognized me by my face unlike me who recognizes them by their name only (most of the times though).
Today we see everything happening in terms of the Name . Say fights, unions, investments, job, etc.. Everything is associated with a name and branded by its name..
"NAME IS THE IDENTITY"
