It can be a burden to educate others, but sometimes the reward can have a vast ripple effect. Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan has this Perspective. When I moved to this country, one of the first discoveries I made was that locals (not of Indian origin) could not say my name. My name is Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan – twenty-five letters and nine syllables. I heard many versions of this name being said, always emphasizing the wrong syllable.