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--- Lawrence Rodrigues wrote:
>
> Publication: Times Of India Mumbai
> Date: 30/07/2006
> Section: Special Report
> Page Number: 11
>
> IDENTITY CRISIS
> Caught in the middle and nowhere to go
> Ashwin Ahmad | TNN
>
> My parents yoked me to the idea of a secular
> India before I was even born. My mother, in a
> stinging refutation of Samuel Huntington's
> theory, named me Ashwin. ''Ashwin Ahmad,'' she said.
> ''Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it.'' And so it
> was. Without having done anything I had been born
> special. As my father said, ''There may be many
> Ashwins and many Ahmads, but hardly anyone will
> have the two together.''
>
Mario muses:
>
The sub title intrigued me, "Caught in the middle and
nowhere to go."
>
Caught in the middle of his parent's idealism? Yes.
But nowhere to go? There's always somewhere to go. A
half-empty glass to some is a half-full glass to
others.
>
Haven't Goans been using non-traditional names for
long enough that they are no longer considered
non-traditional?
>
Ashwin Ahmad needs to talk to Pandurang Fernandes and
compare notes:-))
>
Do Vivek Menezes, Sunith Velho or Valmiki Faleiro have
any personal insights?
>
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