Till I was around four I went about calling my Dad , Mon's Acchan(Son's dad) and my mother, Mon's Mother(Son's mother). I do not know why I did that but perhaps I watched my brother and worked out my own quaint logic. The premise was he was called mon and he would call them Achha and Amma. So I started calling them 'Monde Accha' and 'Monde Amma'. I do not know why nobody corrected(I guess working parents don't really concentrate what you call them when they try to balance a job and family) and I grew up without identifying my pair of parents. The summer of the year i turned four at my grandmother's place a maid asked me "so then where are your parents?" That was the first time the emptiness of my world hit me. I blinked at her bewildered and I heard her say " If you keep calling them as Mon's they will pack you off to your parents in china, that is why you have a chinese nose". I managed to screw my eyes to see the tip of my nose but then as she said they were flat chinese. I waddled to my parents' room. They were relaxing with their son. I stood for sometime watching them and said " Accha and Amma I don't want to be chinese"
My mother took it for another strange babble of mine but my dad and me looked eye to eye for sometime and then I knew I would not be sent to China. Well then, what's in a name? After all we name the emotions, the realtionships.
My mother took it for another strange babble of mine but my dad and me looked eye to eye for sometime and then I knew I would not be sent to China. Well then, what's in a name? After all we name the emotions, the realtionships.
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