We, in Tamilnadu do not have suraname. All the people I know only carried the first letter of the father's name as initial. though carried their villege name also. So Sundar, son of Natarajan, will write his name as N Sundar. Fine, until PAN no forms and Passport applications ask you to expand your initials fully as well as mention your surname. 'Suffering from' surnamelessness, we tend to write father's name as surname; and that opens a lots of problems.
Passport office expands the initials and writes the name as Natarajan Sundar.
I.T department mentions the surname after the first name. So Sundar's name appears as Sundar Natarajan. If you happen to have another addition like Rao or Sarma many more combinations happen such as Sundar Rao Natarajan or Rao Sundar Natarajan.
It is not just funny. I am afraid somewhere some one will end up in difficulty in proving his identity or have his identity mixed up. in the given example whet will happen of some other Natarajan who is the son of some other Sundar crossed our hero's path and some official mismatched the names and facts?
Should we tel the government to declare a standardised way of wrting names? Or is ther one existi ng already?
Passport office expands the initials and writes the name as Natarajan Sundar.
I.T department mentions the surname after the first name. So Sundar's name appears as Sundar Natarajan. If you happen to have another addition like Rao or Sarma many more combinations happen such as Sundar Rao Natarajan or Rao Sundar Natarajan.
It is not just funny. I am afraid somewhere some one will end up in difficulty in proving his identity or have his identity mixed up. in the given example whet will happen of some other Natarajan who is the son of some other Sundar crossed our hero's path and some official mismatched the names and facts?
Should we tel the government to declare a standardised way of wrting names? Or is ther one existi ng already?