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My uncle Devraj — yes, that’s his actual name, and yes, we’re getting to why that matters — has spent the last eleven years building our family tree on one of those genealogy sites. Every few months he calls, always…
My cousin Meera called me at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday, half-laughing, half-panicking. “The baby’s due in six weeks and every name I love, someone in the building already has a dog named that.” I wasn’t exaggerating when I told…
At a wedding in Bengaluru two years ago, Radhika found herself at a table with five other mothers, all comparing notes on their children’s names the way people usually compare notes on schools or paediatricians. There was a Bengali mother…
The pandit arrived at 6 PM, exactly as promised, carrying a cloth bag with a panchang so old its edges had gone soft as fabric. Meera’s mother-in-law had been waiting by the door since five — not out of impatience,…
There’s a particular kind of silence in a delivery room when the doctor says “it’s twins” instead of “it’s a boy” or “it’s a girl.” Sunita remembers it exactly — the pause, then her husband laughing out loud from sheer…
Article Overview Choosing your baby boy’s name is one of the most exciting—and overwhelming—decisions you’ll make as a parent. Family members will share suggestions, relatives will send lists, and everyone will have an opinion about what’s “right.” Here’s what I’ve…
Sanskrit Baby Girl Names Of all the decisions new parents make, naming a baby carries a weight the others don’t — it’s the one choice your daughter will carry, explain, and grow into for the rest of her life. For…
We were in the used-book section of a tiny shop two blocks from the hospital, thirty-six weeks pregnant, arguing quietly over a paperback of Greek mythology someone had left behind on the poetry shelf. My husband wanted something “that sounds…
Priya texted me the ultrasound photo at 6:14 a.m. with one word underneath it: “finally.” She and James had lost a pregnancy the year before, quietly, the way a lot of people do — a few close friends knew, most…
It was 11:40 p.m. and the whiteboard in our spare room had thirty-one names on it, four of them crossed out twice. My sister-in-law was seven months along, sitting cross-legged on the bed with a bowl of muri, and her…
