As someone who can relate to confusion and mispronunciations of names (especially in my youth, when multicultural names were less common), I had to reblog this. Besides, I watched all of House, M.D. and Breaking Bad, and I remember these excerpts!
Pinakin, its name of the person who is writing this post. Now you must be thinking why he is writing a blog post on his name. Because my friend, every name has a story to tell.
The origin.
When I was born, it was my grandmother who insisted to name me, so she chose the name Pinakin. Actually she thought of naming me “pinakpani” but thank god, she didn’t.
The definition.
The original name “pinakpani” mean one who hold bow name Pinak, it’s actually one of many names of lord shiva, the same bow lord Rama broke in order to marry sitaji. Yes lots of ancient history in it.
Pronunciation
I have been suffering my whole life with it, people find this name amusing but don’t know how to say it, so after many years one of my friend told me, hey your name is like that one of…
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