Four years ago when Kermin Bhot and Abhishek Mande tied the knot, the groom "changed his last name (to Mande-Bhot), shattering... stereotypes so effortlessly,” reported the website indiatimes.com on May 9, 2017. In an interview with yahoo.com, Kermin revealed that when Abhishek broke the news to his parents that he intended to take the bride’s surname, "we waited for some form of judgement from either parent... all we got was a long drawn out ‘okay’ from his dad.” The senior Mande even inquired how they were going to go about this, Kermin said.
Brought up in a Parsi household in South Bombay "on a staple of American and British pop culture, Kermin revealed that Abhishek "was born and raised in the distant suburbs of the city in a middle-class Maharashtrian household,” but their "core beliefs and thoughts were the same.”
Veteran journalist and columnist Swaminathan Iyer too had, in the past adopted the surname of his late wife Shahnaz Anklesaria. In his case, the wife’s surname had preceded his: Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar.
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