Pranay

I'm all alone in the land of my forefathers. I generally revel in my loneliness but that's mostly because I know there is some friend I can meet in the place I am in. Here there are no friends I can think of. Some relatives for sure, but I really don't know them well enough. so I am killing time subjecting you my most kind reader to a load of nonsense.

Let me first analyze my name for you. My vast experience in googling tells me that

PRANAY

Gender: Masculine Usage: Indian Other Scripts: प्रणय (Hindi)

Means "leader, guidance, love" in Sanskrit.

Leader, from the time I used to captain my local cricket team while hardly knowing to hold a bat. Unsolicited guidance is my forte but I am quite the agony uncle for quite a few friends. It's quite easy you know. That's why phones have a speakerphone option. Listening is an art. Love (for food) is what sustains me, though it is kinda on the wane. Love (for photography) is what keeps me alive and besides being in love with myself, I am also in love with the concept of being in love. Which is also the reason you hardly find a decent pic of mine on my Flickr account. Maa and Sis are on the get son/bro married plan.

I then move to another statistically true tool ergos the sms based name analyzer which tells me and I quote

Hi Pranay, you are witty and creative. You have a positive frame of mind and are very inspiring and bighearted, When your feelings are hurt you withdraw into a shell but your cheerful nature pulls you through. Be careful lest you lapse into depression and cynicism.

Somehow it was this particular message which had me depressed at the prospect of being depressed and then Anshul's name giving the same meaning had me feel cynical too :).


Totally bored to death,

Luv,
P.R. (which said fast and repeatedly also means love :))