Sonia Ayesha always gets asked about her ethnicity, so it's probably a kind of icebreaker when she socialises. “People always think I’m of mixed parentage and with Indian blood because of my name,” said Sonia, a businesswoman of Malay descent.
“When I was younger, people would ask my mum about my name. She would tell them that I was born close to the year that Rajiv Gandhi, who was Sonia Gandhi’s husband, had died. That was how she discovered the name Sonia,” she explained via e-mail.
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