![]() ![]() ![]() The following year, he begins dating a fellow Bengali American named Moushumi, and they marry a year later. Everything changes when Ashoke dies: Gogol embraces his family roots and breaks up with Maxine. His second relationship, with Maxine Ratliff, becomes so serious that Gogol begins living with Maxine and her parents while barely seeing his own family. ![]() He has two serious relationships with non-Bengali women-the first in college, the second after finishing a master’s degree at Columbia University in New York City. Although his parents hope that he will study engineering like his father, he instead decides to become an architect. There, he is careful to bury all evidence of his former name. As he grows older, however, Gogol comes to hate his name, and he legally changes it to “Nikhil” just before going to college at Yale. Gogol’s parents try to change his name to “Nikhil” when Gogol begins kindergarten, but Gogol will only respond to his pet name. Because a letter from Ashima’s grandmother containing Gogol’s good name is lost in the mail, Gogol is legally given the pet name “Gogol” after the Russian author whose book saved Ashoke’s life. Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli The son of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, Gogol is born in Boston. ![]()
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