Ever since I changed my name, to add my “Iyengar” as my surname, I have ran into major issues. Surprised? well little did I know people in future would ask me “Oh! Iyengar? so you own that bakery that is there in 3rd block, 4th cross across the main road in some slum where people do not have potential to buy a single a piece of bread! from your bakery?” all I do is give a weird look turn around trying to figure out the bakery the guy just mentioned.
There can be million other sharma’s and gupta’s with absolute no relation with each other, similarly there can be thousands of “Iyengars” with absolute no relation to each other, Not all IYENGARS are tortured or forced to set up bakery’s. We do go to so called education institutions and do study! we do do crazy things just like other people out there and not only bake breads.
“Oh! are you owner of all the Iyengar bakery’s? in bangalore?” popped a gentleman after reading my last name, for some strange reason he still stores my name in his phone as “Bakery abhishek” huh! even after taking him through the whole clan of Iyengars, he wasn’t still convinced. Not soon ago, a very good friend of mine challenged me to pick up a free bread by just talking to him in his language, duh!
If I owned a chain of “Iyengar bakery’s” in banglore, I would have been settled in a much bigger mansion than that of Mukesh Ambani’s. I am not even responsible for the stinking cookies or so locally called “Benne biscuits” in the Iyengar bakery’s, they are BAD and i know! and I do not endorse them nor try them! No need to go to consumer court against me, it is just waste of time and energy!
It is just that some good man decided to open a bakery and unfortunately the pudden-headed person had to name it as “Iyengars Bakery” which caught by the name and has caused massive troubles now! atleast to me, like how SAGAR restaurants are not owned by SAGAR, similarly the IYENGAR BAKERY story, one doesn’t need to do any research and study in IIMB and stop questioning me on the “Bakery empire” and how I manage it, your research papers will definitely land in one of those bakery’s.
It’s official and for the last time around, similar to the million’s of Gupta’s, Sharma’s, Kapoor’s, Naidu’s, Iyer’s'; Iyengar is just a surname and “I DO NOT OWN ANY IYENGAR BAKERY ACROSS THE ROAD”.
As I finish writing this article, one of my friend comes upto me and complains to me about his car’s bad tyres, as I try to finish this article with a perplexed face, he popped the next one “I need your help”
“what? how can I ?”
“I believe you own “IYENGAR TYRES !!!”
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