My name is Kalpana,which means "imagination" in Hindi. Don't laugh,it is a very common name in India. Don't you all wonder sometimes whether you are real or just someone's imagination?
Befitting my name, I am ageless and timeless. Nevertheless, I was still born, born twice (Remember, the James Bond movie "You only live twice"). First on a DEC VAX machine at University of California, Davis in 1987, and second time on a Sony lap top on a BART train to San Francisco, somewhere between San Leandro and Montgomery stations in 2002.
Even though I am virtual and exist only as stored electric charge in a human brain or a computer disk, I still have a "gender". In Hindi, all nouns, even abstract nouns have gender, and "Kalpana" (imagination) is feminine, so is my sister "intelligence" who lives with me in the same brain.
Wierd, I know. But remember, while imagination and intelligence can be feminine, they could still be a man's imagaination. |
