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On Feb. 9, 1991 Kiran Christopher Patankar was born of a white mother, Claire Nussey, and an Indian father, Srikanth Patankar. His life could have been one insulting comment after another if his parents had listened to his grandmother (on his father's side) and named him Shankar. This, of course, would have created the unfortunate rhyming name Shankar Patankar. From the start, though, he was doomed because one definition of his name could be interpreted as "speck of dust." Interesting tidbit: The day Kiran was born was also the day his greatest baseball hero, Constantino Martinez, was married.