The main theme of "By Any Other Name," by Santha Rama Rau is that personal and cultural identities are important.
In this Anglo-Indian day school, both girls were given an Anglo name because their names were said to be, "hard to pronounce." Even if the narrator, Santha, was the same person, she felt detached to herself as "Cynthia," in school. It was as if it was another person because she had to be someone else, once she entered campus. She and her sister were brought up in a different culture and they felt that in their school as they were often segregated and singled-out because of their race. In the end, Premila had enough of the discrimination and she and her mother decided that it was not a school to go back to. Even when they thought that Santha did not understand what was happening, it was revealed that she did.
This shows that personal and cultural identities are important because no matter what happened in school they maintained to be themselves as they were brought up to be and rejected the person they "should" be in school.
I believe it is they were involved in a wrote about their changing world
Anna:- Oh my gosh! These dinosaur bones are absolutely spectacular.
Stephanie:- I’ve been waiting to come here for so long. This is amazing! Look over there, it’s the fossilized eggs of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Anna:- Let’s go closer.
Stephanie:- Not too close. We don’t want to hatch and think we are the parents!
Anna:- That’s not even possible, Stephanie.
Stephanie:- Are you sure? I’m a bit skeptical.
Anna:- Yes, I’m very sure.
Stephanie:- ...well, if you say so. But if it hatches, I’m blaming it on you!
I hope that helps.
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it has the word new in it.
new gives us a key that it was in some sort of new period.
