To all & sundry, I am Rinchen. All that changed when I started my hostel life in REC Calicut where the mess workers, usually ladies called “checis” in the regional language schemed of ways to mispronounce my geographically-challenged name, that being their opinion entirely.
To some I was Gunjan, to others a vague distortion of the original name, unprintable, mainly cause my imagination-cum-memory’s not as good as theirs. But the name that stuck big time was Rinjan – so Rinjan I was.
Affectionately, I chose my old blog’s name as such (rinjan.wordpress.com) cause though old memories may not die, they certainly aint fading away either… even after a decade. To old times, to my sweet chechis, to the four years of being Rinjan & clinging on to the name like there’s no tomorrow.
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