Indian taxi driver: What's your name?
Me: My name is ______
Indian taxi driver: Where are you from?
Me: Sri Lanka
Indian taxi driver: "But you have an
Indian name"
Me: "It's a Sri Lankan name"
Indian taxi driver: "But you have an Indian name. Sri Lankans have Indian names?"
This has happened way too often
Sanskrit name /=
Indian name
Why do many Indians seem to think otherwise? Why am I made to feel like my name was "stolen" from the "Indians"?
How is the name Kumar particularly "Indian" when Nepalis and Sri Lankans use that name in their local language, and where it also has an actual meaning?
Latin had a prominent position across Europe and Sanskrit (as well as the Prakrits) had a prominent position across the subcontinent.
Infact many Sri Lankans actually have proper Sanskrit names, not the elised ones that many Indians use.