What's in a married maiden's name?
What’s in a married maiden’s name? India is a patriarchal society. In the first 30 years of my life, this fact has not bothered but once I got married, this reality has encountered me number of times. Now please don’t start thinking that I am some “abla nari” with monstrous in laws and spouse – um hmm, far from it. I have a fairly understanding spouse and super supportive in laws. So where do I come across this dilemma of patriarchy, especially after marriage? Well, I did marry at 30, with 8 years of work experience (and filed IT returns for each of those years) and have done my share of international travel. Therefore at the time of my marriage I had my PAN card (permanent account number), accounts, passport etc. in my maiden name. Never realising my folly and not taking my married name I continued in the blissful state of keeping my maiden name and not updating any of these to reflect my married name. How do I know you are his wife? Now the first time I was jolted