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Khan (/xɑːn/) is a surname of Turko-Mongol origin,[1] today most commonly found in parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan and Iran. It is derived from the historic title khan, referring to military chief or royalty. It originated as a hereditary title among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe during antiquity and was popularized by Afghan dynasties in the rest of Asia as well as in Eastern Europe during the medieval period.
The name's earliest discovered usage as a title for chiefs and for monarchs dates back, respectively, to the Hepthalites and the Hepthali Empire, two proto-Mongolic societies in Inner Asia during antiquity; in the Pannonian Basin and Carpathian Mountains and their surrounding regions of Central and Southeast Europe, the title was used by the Pannonian Avars and the early Bulgars during the early medieval period before being more widely spread by various Muslim chieftains in a region spanning the empires centred in modern-day Turkey and Crimea to those in the Indian subcontinent.[2][3]
The surname Khan is occasionally found among people of Afghan, Muslim Rajputs and Mongolic descent, but it is far more common among Muslims in South Asia.[4][5] Khan as a last name is also used by Kashmiri Hindus, native to the Kashmir Valley of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.[6][7]
As of 2014[update], Khan is one of the most common surnames worldwide, shared by over 22 million people in Asia and 23 million people worldwide.[8] It is the surname of over 108,674 British Asians, making it the 12th-most common surname in the United Kingdom.[9]
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My name is Sumana Khan. No, please don't pronounce Khan from the epiglottis, and don't feel obliged to reassure yourself and me with the famous assertion, "Your name is Khan and you are not a terrorist." I usually avoid explaining my surname but I will do so here because it has placed me at an unusual intersection of religions and castes and the reactions these evoke. You see, I'm not a Muslim. Indeed, I am officially a Hindu with a Bengali heritage whose surname is a title or " " (like Chowdhury, say) given to a forefather during the time of the British rule. Most people do not know this and nor do I tell them, but more on this later.
But of course, this idyll could not last forever, especially as we started growing up and branching out into the world. I remember being surprised when some people made an issue out of my boyfriend at the time belonging to the "reserved category." I was fully aware of this fact but could not see why this was a problem (we later broke up for entirely unrelated reasons). It was my first real encounter with the ugliness of caste, and the more I emerged from the cocoon of my youth, the more I started to face incidents of this sort.
After getting through another PSU in a permanent executive position, when I was undergoing an orientation session with my colleagues, another senior asked me the same question. Again I said "yes" without further explanation. However, he persisted and asked me if I was a Muslim. I asked him if it mattered. He said it did, to which I replied that I was a creature of the human race and followed humanity. He laughed out loud and asked me the same question again. I got up and left. Interestingly, my surname bothers people on the other side of the religious divide too. A Khan I knew (a "real" Khan, so to speak) stopped speaking to me when he I was not a Muslim.
So no, I'm not a Muslim, and my surname is nothing but a relic from the colonial era. Yet I will not change it even if it makes me more likely to be denied a visa to the USA. I wish to carry my name as it is because in this bigoted world we need people to take the right stand against stereotypes and biases and not be forced to bend to them. I want to show that everything is not as it seems, especially when it comes to surface attributes like name, religion, caste. Only humanity matters.
He says he feels angry and humiliated. I know how he feels. In the last three years I have travelled to the US six times. Each time, bar one, I was stopped. I was asked to go to a holding facility and my passport was taken. You are asked to sit down by a polite but hostile official.
Each time they would tell me that the procedure was routine, that they would get me out as soon as possible. From the Middle East, where I am based, to the US is a 14-hour flight. Every time I was tired, hungry and I could feel that I was about to get rattled. But shouting and getting angry would not have helped. These men are just doing the job.
I have a friend. There is nothing Muslim about her other than her name. She swears like docker and parties harder than Kanye West. She is Palestinian American. Even this young New Yorker, who is as American as it gets, right down to her Brooklyn accent, feels scared in the US.
If future attacks from a tiny but determined minority are to be stopped, then enlist the help and respect of those good people who share the name of the faith with the terrorists, but not their spirit.
How big a draw is that? More people around the world watch Shah Rukh Khan than Meryl Streep or Brad Pitt. Maybe Meryl Streep and Brad Pitt. His film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, made in 1995, is still playing in one Mumbai cinema.
"The idea is that you have to some way make a film that appeals to my 90-year-old grandmother and to the 9-year-old kid," Khan says. "So it's like a cabaret. Like, I have a couple of films written by American guys, and I bring them back to Mumbai, make them sit down. And then I say: 'OK, here's the song, and here's the mother.' 'But there's no mother in the film.' And I say, 'There has to be a mother in the film.' "
But in his latest production, being released in the U.S. Feb. 12, he's not doing anything quite that over the top. He plays a Muslim man with Asperger's syndrome who is driven after the events of Sept. 11 to constantly repeat a single explosive phrase:
"And there is an aspect of Islam that needs to be addressed now, otherwise this demarcation, this divide we keep on increasing," he says. "So I just thought we should have a message about a film with humanity. Just goodness."
Soon after he finished filming My Name is Khan, India's biggest film star almost found himself thwarted. On a visit to the United States, he was detained and questioned for two hours at U.S. immigration. The incident made front-page headlines across India.
"I didn't react to it as vehemently as I think everyone back home did," Khan says, "because I'm used to it. You know, my name is Khan, really. And I'm sent to the other side, which is OK. I don't make a big issue out of it."
"The foreign minister in India said that, you know, we also are going to do the same to the Western world people when they come," Khan says. "So I said, 'Give me the chance to frisk Angelina Jolie if she comes to India, please. I should be the first one to try this.' "
"And I'm like, 'We are fantasies?' Our guys just want to sing and dance on the roads. Our guys just want to drive a big car. Our guys just want to come to America. You know, we don't want to go to Pandora. America is our Pandora."
I just recently realized that "Dr. Noonian Soong" and "Khan Noonien Singh" sound familiar. Is there documented confirmation that the TNG writers were inspired by Star Trek II? Or is this purely a coincidence?
During World War II, he had a friend named Kim Noonien Singh; after the war Kim disappeared, and Gene used his name for some characters in the Star Trek series (Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Noonien Soong from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)) in hopes that Kim might recognize his name and contact him.
I just finished watching Star Trek Enterprise S04E04-06 and it's about Dr. Arik Soong. He was in prison for crossing the line when he was on the project creating the genetic supermen, the same as Kahn. The episodes also have Dr. Arik Soong's children, not his literal children but a group of kids he raised that were genetic supermen. He stole the embryos when he was working on the project.
Dr. Noonian Soong is in fact linked to Khan. Dr. Soong's great grandfather Arik Soong created the Augments (a second attempt at the kind of super beings led by Kahn) and played a vital role in the Eugenics Wars. Khan's name is a bastardisation of Soong's name, but Kahn is (in a weird kind of way) Noonian Soong's great great uncle.
I can understand why there is confusion, both the Soong men have an outrageous trait in the shows, they seem to live forever. Noonien Soong was at least 100 years old when Data finally met him in 2367, and Data himself was at least 120. Arik Soong himself is no exception, the Eugenics Wars take place until 1993 on Earth, yet Arik appears on Enterprise in 2155 roughly 150 years later (and looking mid 40s to boot).
It is further frustrating that Arik (Near the end of the episode) confesses his desire to create artificial life forms, a hobby which defines the existence of his great grandson Noonien Soong. Combined with his (Arik's) uncanny similarity to both Data (the positronic androids) and Noonien Soong (all played by Brent Spiner), I can understand why everyone is so confused.
The Augments and Kahn were created during the 20th century before the Eugenics War (1960s and 70s I'd guess) (look up the book Eugenics Wars, it details where and how the Bontany Bay and Kahn were created, and the Super humans rise to global power on Earth until 1996) I am unsure if Arik is directly mentioned, I doubt it, as Arik Soong is an ENT concept created for the Enterprise show, thus a decade or two (in real life) after Eugenics War was written.
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