What's in the name?

Just imagine this conversation: Hi Neha, please Tell C division Neha to tell A div Neha to give the book to B div Neha. Oh god, what a mess!! That is precisely how it is here. We have not 1 , 2 or 3 but 5 Nehas in our batch. Thanks to a “Just Neha”, at least she got differentiated.

This is much later... Lets go back 2 months. I reached the Symbiosis Campus on the 31st of May 2009 and we were greeted by a college bag and a rose. Anxiety and curiosity were the 2 emotions running down my spine. How else would you describe the action of taking the room keys and rushing straight to the room? I saw my roommate ,Shifa(Confused it with Shikha for a long time), had already come with her bag and baggage and her poor mom was helping her sort out the humongous mess of clothes and other stuff that she had got along with her. After meeting and exchanging assurances and re-assurances that I had a good roommate, I proceeded with my family to have lunch. On my way, I met almost 10/15 students and their parents each of them enquiring name and background( Did I ever tell you that till date I do not remember who is an engineer and who is a commerce graduate?..:P). When I went back to the room, I met my second roommate, Deepa( Phew, an easy name..).
Enter into the day when we would get to know our classmates. Has anyone heard of learning groups in a Bschool. Yes, and surely there was one here too. One of my group members spelled his name as “Rahoul". He was initially referred to as “the Rahul with an O”..:P:P and I wonder if the other 2 Rahuls in our batch felt left out at not having something as absurd as this.:)
Following the IIM tradition, we had names written on our seats and we had to be seated that way. (Poor things on the 1st bench). Now before the orientation started, we tried to search for people with whom we used to chat online before joining, all those who were famous/infamous on orkut and also those we met in the Bombay meet. But alas, that was not all that simple, because all of us were divided into 3 sections and people known from orkut weren’t all that recognisable, thanks to the tiny, long distant profile pictures. So the wait continued till the OBL, thats Outbound Learning.
Come 4th May, The OBL day, and we were in high spirits because we were to trek, walk blind folded on rods and do all sorts of adventurous activities. The name game followed us there too. We were paired in groups of 10/11 and expected to do these tasks and guess what, the first game itself had name remembering antics. You had to call out a person’s name from the group and throw the ball to her/him .Clever that we are, we remembered one person’s name and kept throwing the ball to the same person..:P:P.. Anyway the coordinators outsmarted us after realising what we were doing and made a rule that you cannot repeat names.:(. So by the end we forcibly added 11 more names in our list. Still over a 100 names to go, wonder how that is going to happen.
There we got to know that we had Ruchis, Ruchas, Richas as well as Ruchikas. Now tell me how do I remember who is who!!!. Oh, I forgot to mention the most important names of our batch, Sheetal and Shaleen. Lets take a wild guess if it was a girls name or a boys name. If all of you reading this long never ending article guessed it as a girl you are all wrong, there are guys by that name in our batch and I am not kidding. So isn’t the name game a fun filled event.?.:P