A moment that changed me: for the first time in my life, a stranger pronounced my name correctly

I had grown up dreading introductions, with the inevitable mangling of my name. Suddenly, in India, we were both getting the respect we deservedI had five names on the day of my Hindu naming ceremony, but my given name was Priti, a name that came to shape me.Like most children with “unconventional” names, I dreaded the first day of each school year.