By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau

Suppose we give you pretty English names. Wouldn't that be more jolly?". Children were also stereotyped by their nationality since, as the author states, she was sited (seated?) at the back of the class in a test, just because "Indians cheat". Similarly, Children in China were also oppressed but more strongly. In China Mao's revolution was a very hard period. Children would learn in school only from Mao's books. They had to learn only what their chairman believed, and he believed in communism, which is signified by the author as "the common ownership of economic resources". The importance is that Chinese people and more strongly children always leaded to "the common and obligated sentiment, way of thinking and acting for all peoples". This little girl was oppressed to the point of being influenced by the school secretary to follow every communist thought and was pushed to political tendencies where she was almost obligated to betray her own feelings and a person she admired just because the regime said so. .
             Santha came from a very conservative family, and they wanted to keep their traditions. Her mother was opposed to send them to an Anglo-Indian school, but she got sick and had to send her daughters to it. Her mother refers to these schools as "British-run establishments" since the Indian schools were not considered valid in those days. Her mother used to teach Santha and Premila in their own house with their own traditions. They were used to having a siesta and to worship Indian gods. They didn't have a clear idea of what "winning" was. In their families competition was not a trait to be proud of, however, sharing and helping was. At the end of the story, By Another Name, Santha Rama Rau does not let her self be crush to the point of letting her teacher stereotype her as cheater, so she takes the decision of leaving the school with her sister and explaining everything to her mother.