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Having endured a rather uncomfortable pre-marital relationship with my surname Keeka, whose meaning and origin I am still unable to discover, Parsi surnames have always fascinated me. It was the timely and persuasive intervention of a ‘Dada’ and ‘Bhai’ that got me out of that predicament. Growing up in a vast Parsi colony and going to a Parsi dominated school added to my curiosity. This was fueled further by a post-dinner game loosely based on an antakshari format but with Parsi surnames invented by my mamaiji (maternal grandmother), who strongly believed in infotainment before the word was coined. Looking back, the surname......