Lets start with the name

What is in the name , many people say , think and believe.
It is a worldly policy , people say , once you are dead your name doesnt count. The name is for your body and not for your soul.but then all that work that is thought by your soul , is performed by the means of your body only. So yes , your name counts and holds importance because like  without a soul a body is worthless similarly without a body a soul ceases to hold any value.

I am very obsessed with my own name , therefore i keep a lot of philosophy about it . I like to see it on good places . I often doodle my name on my notebooks , on my wrists , on my ankle , on erasers and many more things . Not to forget walls.;)
I feel a sense of pride overcome me when i hear my name on any stage or read it on certificates like my board marksheet. That is one wierd fetish i hold , my own name , what is so special about it ?

This love for my own name always made me inqisitive about why is my name so interesting for me and what is its story? I found out so let me tell you guys that today....

About 17 years ago ie in the year 2000 when my mother was carrying a foetal me in her womb to office everyday , her colleagues decided to name me as millenium baby , the  born in the first year  of the 2nd millenium.

When i was born  ,there were thousands of suggestions for the first baby girl of that generation in my paternal family , after a tiring 3 boys. My atte ( my fathers elder sister) had three sons all elder to me. So now when her dearest brother had a daughter she was super excited , she suggested the name nishchita (definite one) randomnly. My ninni ( my mother's younger sister whom i call so , i will tell you later why) then suggested sunishchita which holds almost the same meaning as the previous name but as it started from s it would then be matching to my parents name.( both my parent's name start from the letter s) .
My mother had made a list of girl names from the letter s and had chosen the name stuthi meaning prayer for me.
But the last say was my father's , he named me samyukta  which means unity . The name was not very common yet it was okay with the whole family.
My name was unity and it was unique. You find quite a few girls with my name along with the same spelling.
India being a multilinguistic country holds my name with different spellings and pronunciations in each of its parts.
In north india my name is pronounced as sam-yuk-ta  but yet when i was in gurgaon(Haryana) for a few years , the locals there would often mistake my name to be sangeeta meaning music. And i would be like whatever you understand but tell me how does my name sound like sangeeta , that was non sensical! But that was not their fault , my name was very uncommon in that region.
In gujarat region my name becomes sanyukta whose root is the name of the princess sanyogita , lover and wife to the bravest of brave king prithviraj chauhan. The legend says that she had fall3n in love with his statue and on the day of her swayamvar , she went and garlanded his statue as he was not invited to the ceremony , insulting all the other princes present there. This was how straightforward she was. She had the courage to place her choice of love in front of the whole world , a quality which many girls of that time lacked and lack now too. It takes a lot of courage to do something like this .
My mother has a habit of putting comments on each childhood photo of mine. In one of them where i am a two year old baby in small shorts and sleeveless top but totally decked in my mother's ornaments( i do not know how i landed up in them :^) pestering my father. According to my mother's comment i am questioning him when my prithviraj will come for me, riding a white horse. Seriously ? Do i have no other work than to think about boys and marriage that too back then , for god's sake i was two!

Bengalis and odiyas very fondly convert my name into sanjukta given that their language  doesnt pay heed to " y " and curtly replace it with a "j". How sweet of them, right   ?

Last but not the least south indians pronounce my name correctly but when it comes to spelling it i do not understand why do they add an unecessary "h " in my name making me samyuktha .

So basically my name is a north indian spelling having a south indian pronunciation.and i , i am cosmopolitan!i represent the unity of my family!!!

In these 17 years  and 8 months of my life i have been given thousands of names :

1. Be it my pet name shinnu which finds its roots in the kannada word chinna meaning gold.

2. Or the short form of my name , sammy given to me by my friends , which highly irritated me to no extent  for two main reasons 
i. The m in my name is silent so how can it be so prominent in my pet name.
ii. Sammy sounds like a dog's name, doesn't it?
Nevertheless lets continue...

3.when i was a little baby of three months or so , my  cousin brothers who were quite small then too (although elder to me) would stand near the door as my mother would make me sleep and murmur to each other "gombe tarah" which in kannada means doll like.  Three month olds look like dolls only , dont they?

4." Akka " the most beautiful name assigned to me when i was 7 by my little sister and again as "shinnu akka " by my  baby cousin  recently when i was 13.i cant say how i love to hear that name. However much my sister would bash me she would never call me by my name. My name is akka ( elder sis) according to her.

5. Miss chirpy by my second standard class teacher as according to her i didnt know how to put a stop on my tweety rants.

6. Doubt queen in my twelfth standard because trust me there would have hardly been any lecture where i wouldnt have raised my hand up for asking a doubt to the teacher.

And many more....

But in between so many names i stand as a singular personality in front of the world ready to face any name you give me , positive or negative.

Thats it for today , bye !
PS : Ignore the typos pls