My real name is Akhil Nair. Now Nair is not used. Instead of ‘child’. There is a story behind it. When I was studying at Neyyattinkara Polytechnic College, there were five or six Akhils in our batch, in many initials. I was more company with the seniors. They started calling me ‘kutty’ in front of my name so that I could recognize them quickly. I was the youngest of the ‘Akhil group’ in form and age. The first was ‘Koch Akhil’. It was later called and it became a ‘child’. With that, everyone in the college, including the principal and teachers, started calling him a ‘kid’. Teachers only called her ‘child’. Became a ‘kid’ for juniors.”
