COMEDY OF NAMES

Sometimes I keep wondering what rules parents that they keep such weird names for their children.
For example I had two of my friends, one was called MRUTYUNJAY (meaning one who wins over death) and the other was called JANMAJAY (Don’t ask me the meaning now). Now both the names were too long to spell…but you can’t call them JAY because you can’t differentiate between them. But then the question is what you would call them. You cannot call MRUTYUNJAY as MRUTYU (meaning death)…Imagine how will this sound "HI MRUTYU…WHEN ARE YOU COMING !!? ".

Another of my friends was called SHATRUJEET (meaning one who wins over enemies).
But we used to call him SHATRU (meaning enemy). So he ended up being called SHATRU instead of MITR (meaning friend) by everyone.

This is another irony of having long names. One of my friends got through a reputed organization. She was called SAMAPIKA SATAPATHY. But the organization had the rule of having only eight characters of their employee’s names. So she was called SAMSATAP (meaning…I don’t think it means anything at all). After pulling the legs of so many of my friends on their names, it’s my turn now. I have an offer from the same company now. It’s one of the biggest MNC’s we have today but I am more than scared to join there. I have the longest names among all friends and what I will be called there is my worst nightmare.