The name is Sadanandan…Praveen Sadanandan….Praveen Velayudhan Sadanandan.
Praveen is so common name that it is difficult to identify which part of India it is from. And usually it would happen that in a group there would be many Praveen’s but only one v s. So this initial of mine has come to my rescue in identity crisis. ‘kaun praveen? ..V S ?’ One thing I noticed is that in maharashtra many have this name spelt as pravin..so it was not surprising when some of my mumbaikar n pune frnds addressed me as pravin.
The expansion of Velayudhan (my grand fathers name) was sometimes confusing to me in my school days. And I never bothered to know the exact spelling as it was not used in my name ..as initials of v.s was more than sufficient..and since I had to address my grandfather as ‘appuppa’ and not by his name, I had no idea about the correct spelling.
Some 7 years back when I was in my final semester of B.E, I got my full name made it official while filling my passport details, as I was supposed to expand my initials for the first time. So the full name remained in my passport from then onwards. The after effect of this expansion was I had to embrace a change in me being addressed officially as sadanandan or velayudhan as well. My PAN card shows V and S expanded and because of space issue of this big name, Praveen was removed. I now recollect that my name officially started showing less presence of Praveen when I was being called for interviews or in some official calls and some ad marketing calls where I was either Sadanandan or Velayudhan or Praveen to some but have never bothered to correct them.
My mail id in techm was praveens @ techmahindra, so nobody knew my full name.
Even though my infosys mail id is Praveen_sadanandan, I still have Praveen v s as display name..why because I still like it this way and my old frnds can still recognize me when my mail reaches them as Praveen v.s.
So good or bad, among the three parts of my name.. dad’s and grandfather’s name also gets dragged into wherever its being mentioned. Baap ke saath saath, baap ke baap ka naam bhi roshan(or khaarab) karega :) (please note: i have huge respect to my grand dad and his name..sounds so respectful and strong natured..i like that :))
Naam se yaad aaya..A famous dialogue from one of my favourite Amol palekar starrer movie Golmaal.
Amol palekar (character name as Lucky): "Buddha ghar pe hai?
Utpal Dutt (doing gardening with character name as Bhawani): "Aap ko kaise pata ki woh buddhe hain?
Lucky(intentionally adressing Bhawani as maali): "Arrey maali… jiska naam Bhawani Shankar ho, woh to paida hote hi buddha ho gaya” :)
