I am exceedingly sentimental about just one thing from my ‘childhood’ days – the surname Mukherjee – and today whenever I hear it anywhere, I am overcome by an unexplainable emotional bout. Not just today, I guess even before marriage, I was quite proud of my surname Mukherjee (just the surname) and nowadays it never fails to bring a thrilling something in me – something happens to me whenever it is mentioned anywhere.
Though I have no qualms about Cardozo, I still feel like retaining Mukherjee in my name as I feel Mukherjee at any given day sounds more sexy, royal and classy. So sometimes I feel like calling myself Jubilee Mukherjee Cardozo. But in majority of the places I am known as Jubilee Cardozo and my initials JC matches everyone in the family and also with Jesus Christ – so I dare not change something that has so much similarity with the good Lord.
According to Wikipedia, Mukherjee, Mukharji, Mookerjee or Mukerji or Mukherji is sometimes also written as Mukhopadhyay. Actually, it is evolved from the purer Sanskrit Mukhopadhyay which means Mukhya (chief) and Upadhyay (teacher) – not necessarily a religious teacher though! I didn’t find anything more substantial than this in my research!!!
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