Sign your name...

One of the things that's distinctive in the area we live, is signs outside houses showing the name of the people who live in the house. These name plates would also be really useful for the postman, except the mail for these houses has probably already been redistributed, probably to people whose names were not the same as those on the envelope. So on our street we have signs saying, among other names, Chakrabati, Mirchandani, Batra and Gupta. Actually most of the signs in our street say Gupta. Our landlord is a Gupta, a cousin lives on our top floor, and his mum lives across the road. And they're just the connections I've made already. Our house has one of these nameplates. It says Gupta, Mehra and Institutio Hispania, the Spanish Language School. The space next to Ground Floor is blank. We could add Fairweather, or Fairweather Dragicevich to it, but
a) proper paint is not cheap (so says our friend, Shireen)
b) the space isn't large enough for all those characters
c) Indians often get confused between forenames and surnames, so Rod is often Mr Rod, and I am Mrs Rod, so maybe the sign should read Rod or Rod Lana instead
d) we're the only white people in the street and everyone knows where we live already
and e) no mail really ever arrives anyway, because it's been nicked!

But we can't be the only white people in Hauz Khas, because I saw this name plate around the corner from the market.
Short, sweet and identifying enough!