My name is infuriating. ‘Thank you, Maithili’. I felt my ears burn as the debate host butchered my name. ‘It’s okay, Mait,’ my teammate Tasha encouraged me. ‘Your name is difficult and ….unconventional.’ I slumped in my seat and frowned. ‘It’s not like you’d have it any other way’. ‘It does suit you.’ Tasha was right. I have various eccentricities in me. My name is just the most [superficially] apparent. Even before I was born, I was...