Lastname Story :)

"mee perlentraa"

"KAKARLA kishan"

"MANCHU sreedhar"

"needi bey"

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Flash back:

V class..final days :

It didnt take much time to realise the intensity of the embarrassment when we were summoned to be at Principal's room during the final days of V class.......As at Tagore school,there was no english medium beyond V class, princi was doing some paper work for TC et cetera....He suddenly started asking our surnames and I always disliked mine.Matter-of-factly,Strongly Disliked ;).After Radha(krishna)..it was my turn. didn’t want to expose my last name before Radha(he might know though).He would smile sarcastically which i only could understand..courtesy: our "okey-kancham-okey-mancham-kinda-friendship" :) .So when i was asked i simply said " i dont know" .Flabbergasted by my answer, princi asked me to go home(very nearer) and find it out. And the the one who without any ounce of surprise …stood smiling…. was my my nemesis :) Radha…because he knew .He knew I lied.

My thoughts in such instances during school-days went like : "people say that the surname shows some ancestral history..prestige.. but nobody knows even the name of one's own great grandfather …then whats the deal in the surname..why cant we go for a new” .great thinking kadaaa….!!!! thanku thanku :P

Intermediate I year: First week

The very experienced,veteran english sir ...subbaiah sir was asking about the family-tree of everybody as he was 100% confident(naa time bad..mchh!!!) that during his vast 30 years of teaching experience he must have encountered and taught atleast either of our parents or even both. God!!!!!!! My heart was aching fearing the embarrassment. And it happened again for the nth time.As the sir could not figure out my lineage...the face-to-face session lasted for a long time..me standing at my desk.....everybody staring......and within no time...each and everybody of the class room came to know my "itu yedu tharaalu-atu yedu tharalu" history ;-) .

Engineering-Ragging days:

The most feared days....had to utter the name prefixing the surname...Otherwise,had to face the wrath of the seniors : paying penalty or doing imposition-work ..the worst part was.. listening to all the filthy words they would say to you..
Stupid rules of ragging. And I used to tell my name spluttering the surname part.. ….hahaha ..in some cases even I made it sound differently altogether….

And the biggest problem did arouse with the advent of internet...when I had to create personal email id.Most of the friends had theirs with their lastnames but I never dared to keep it that way.. hahahaha ... Kishan used to tease me sometimes calling me ”hikranthi”( my id those days)..and sreedhar enquired me about the number in my id kranthi200( also mine for another period)...

Hmm…but, by the end of first year (btech)…I didn’t feel anything eerie about it…got used to that….the next few years in college..whoever asked me ,I just simply told them…quite a big change.....revolutionary change, indeed :P .

Still...kabhi kabhi.... I feel jealous whenever I come across some good lastnames :P...hmm.. nothing can be done….just relax and enjoy what my Great Great grandfathers bestowed ;)

Most encountered scene....during raggging period…when seniors caught us:

"mee perlentraa"

"KAKARLA kishan" (wow ..good one)

"MANCHU sreedhar" ( aahaa.."manchu".. manchi surname)

"needi bey"

"POTTABATHULA kranthi kumar" ( thaathaaaaa!!!!!!! )

-The End- :D