Couple of years back, I was at a place called Rouen in France. It was a lovely but a pretty small town, about 3 hrs away from Paris.

What was interesting was that there were a lot of Indian Restaurants in this small town, with names such as Rajasthan, Gandhi, Maharaja, Delhi, Namaste, etc.

Each of these restaurants had a lot of symbols of India, Indian tradition & culture and things related to India.

What was surprising was that all of these restaurants were owned by people from Pakistan. Every staff working there were also from Pakistan.

And all of these restaurant owners received me & my team very warmly. On asking why do they have Indian names, it was a common answer - Restaurants with names or references to Pakistan don’t really work. Hence, they bank on Indian names.

That was both happy as well as surprising for me. Because Rouen is a country side small town, and yet people had those kind of feelings over there which inherently promoted an Indian name higher & better over a Pakistani name.