Dream peddler

Bengali’s have two names. One their good name and the other their pet name. Somewhere I have heard that the pet name mars the good name. The pet name can range from utterly meaningless words of local mouth that hardly corresponds to an object tangible or intangible. This domain of pet name usually evolves from a “world of ideas” that may be the great Greek philosopher Plato described. The same names have actually been used and reused for denoting individual persons. Times have been there when people actually know that particular individual by their not-so-enchanting pet name. And you suddenly become your para’s(local) montu-da. Oh! Cool…

But what is that is really in a name? Cut the crap. It’s just a convention, umm… errs, or is there something out there, in the dark?

I am Sauvik. Now why did my parents choose such an odd name, that none other than Bengali’s can pronounce it? Well, if don’t have that typecaal bangalee accent, you are going nuts pronouncing my name the way I want. (I don’t want much wateva’)

According to my name I should either be a magician, or a person who does good things, always and for everybody. Oh! The burden called life, and there’s a thing called expectation too, in this mundane world. But see what have I become? A software engineer. I can’t even make those viruses vanishes with a wave of my wands. However, there’s something called a brain-wave. Thank god!!         

Hence, I ask myself… what’s in a name buddy? Ur identity? Well, may be, but not really your true identity lies within yourself. The way you think. The way you work. The way you walk along life. The way you project yourself. Some people called it the philosopher’s project.   

I am many things. (No, I don’t have split personality)

I am a freshly graduated software engineer. And I am an Indian, to be more specific, and getting into provincial details, I am a Bengali. And I am a writer and a thinker too. I don’t write for myself, I write for my emotions. I am a star gazer in the night, a crow counter in the Sunday afternoons. I am against Gandhi-ism. Am non-political, non-religious, but spiritual. I try to be an atheist, but my upbringing doesn’t quite let me too…

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