By Any Other Name, Santha Rau

In the passage By Any Other Name, by Santha Rau, she tells a story of when she was a five and a half year old little girl growing up in Zorinabad, going through the changes of moving and trying out public schools. Her mother had taught her and her sister up until she got ill and couldn’t continue to teach them herself. The girls went to school, and the first day started the disaster of their very short tour of public schools. The head mistress changed the girls’ names from their birth-given Indian names to “pretty English names”. The girls would go through many more unfair consequences for being Indian. They would have to leave their culture at home and go to school as a different person. I don’t agree with this treatment because I think every person is entitled to flaunt their culture and their own rights as a human being.
The girls were never called their real names while at school; they would be referred to with their new names. There were other Indian children at the s...