Disclaimer: This post is neither a rant nor am I voicing my regret here. Few of my thoughts.
My son's name is Naman Mahesh Siddheshwar. Anything missing here? Nothing, I suppose. To anybody who knows my husband's name, this name - Naman, son of Mahesh Siddheshwar sounds perfectly normal. To me however, the question is more of a why not than a why? Why do we not have mother's name as a part of the child's name. "Father is the head of the family" is a fact of the past, at least in most of the modern families. In today's world of mom-dad equality, why is it that we continue to uphold this practice? I had always imagined that my kid(s) would break away from this naming ritual. Alas, when opportunity presented itself, I succumbed. No pressure, no opposition, just plain chickened out. Fear of what the elders and people in general might say. And so here I am, mom of my husband's son.
