![]() ![]() The title “By Any Other Name” refers to Cynthia having to loose her identity and her cultural qualities to be at this school. Santha believes when she is Cynthia, she does not have care about the day to day activities at school or her actions. Her sister is silent and does not respond to this event, yet Santha says in a tiny voice she accepts the new name probably because she is scared to disagree. She gives them the new names of Pamela and Cynthia. On Premila and Santha’s first day at the new school, they were told by headmistress their names were too hard for her to pronounce. She was also saying that the British wanted their own customs and were unable to accept or appreciate Indian customs. ” She is expressing you can try to change someone’s cultural background, but it won’t happen. Her mother never wanted to send them to a British school and this is shown when she says “you can bury a dog’s tail for seven years, but it still comes out curly, you can a take a Britisher away from his home for a lifetime, and he still remains insular. ![]() ![]() When her mother gets ill, because her father is an officer of the civil service, they can attend this Anglo-Indian school for free. Her mother had always home-schooled both her and her sister, Premila. The title of Santha Rama Rau’s short story “By Any Other Name” refers to the character of Santha, who is a five and half-year-old Indian girl, which experiences discrimination for the first time while attending an Anglo-Indian school during the time period in which the British ruled India. ![]()
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