Bhopal, Apr 23: To boys it may look peculiar but for girls it is age-old tradition to have two surnames in their life. Number one they get, that of father's, at the time of birth and No. two at the time of marriage, of now some of them are not willing to comply with it. Bhopal Today Team talked to them and found that they are really against it.

Kamini Mishra says very strongly that he born and brought up with that. It has become her identity they why she should lose it and be known with husband's surname. She asked, 'This surname is given by my parents and I consider it their blessings. However, this not my condition for getting married but that is what I feel correct. I have established my identity as Kamini Mishra then why should I change it.'

Vidya Gunhote said, 'I don't have any abstention for changing my surname after the marriage but I would like to add my husband's surname with mine. By the way this trend of adding surname is getting popular and I don't think today's boys should have any problem with it.' Though she is ready to compromise with her surname but not willing to let anyone do that with her name.

Dipti Sharma said, 'To my view not a single girl should change her surname after the marriage. Nowadays lot of cases of divorce come across so just think of the situation I someone faces divorce but she had already established her identity with husband's surname then what would she do?' She added that if boys were not ready to do it for girls then only we would do it for them. So it is best that one should keep one's original surname forever.

Student of MSc final year, Kamla Chaudhary said, 'I am not against changing surname after the marriage because we begin a new life with it so why should we have any problem in doing that. But there is only one problem with it that since birth we have been identified with the surname, then what is the utility of changing that mid way.'

Varsha Dubey is also against of changing her surname after the marriage. She added, 'After years of struggle since birth I earned an identity for myself then why should I struggle again for identity with changed name.' She continued, 'No body wants to lose one's identity whether it is boy or girl. If I were not professionally very strong even then I would not change my surname. By the way to change one's surname after the marriage is just a tradition. I don't think it makes any difference in married life. For me it's complete no-no but if others were ready to it then they could go ahead.'