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Then, though he seems to have managed perfectly well with it, he realises he carries his namesake's surname, and decides to retrieve the abandoned forename - "Nikhil" - before university.įor so important a metaphorical device, the moment of renaming resonates shallowly. The hero, named after the Russian writer Gogol, misses out on a proper (in Bengali parlance, "good") name because of an oversight and a death. In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates." The practice of renaming is crucial to The Namesake.

In her first novel, Jhumpa Lahiri informs us that "Bengali nomenclature grants, to every single person, two names.

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