In the 2006 movie Namesake, there is a poignant moment when Kal Penn, playing the role of Gogol Ganguli, asks Irrfan Khan, playing the role of Ashoke Ganguli (his father) about why he named him after a “paranoid, suicidal, friendless, depressed” Russian author Nikolai Gogol. Apart from pointing out that Gogol, the author, was also […]
