User talk:Binuchawla

Binu is my nick name, but Alaknanda was the name given to me by my parents at the time I started school. My father Harcharan Chawla and mother Purnima Chawla were both writers and were litrary people. They took pride in the name they gave me but at first I was not able to associate with my name. But while at school one of my Hindi Teachers explained the importance of my name in the hindu mythology,which ofcourse intrigued me to find more about my name. I read about the river Alaknanda and its part in the birth of river Ganges. The more I read about the river more I associated and more i was able to identify myself with the river.