in response to "depressing realization"

my father writes:

"For some reason a school of thought in India ( um.. Bengal really)
holds that palindromes are unlucky; they point out that a poor fellow named
(su)(ba) (la) (ba) (su) [Subal Basu written in Bengali] could not do
anything because of his palindromic name. So, I would not worry about
graduating just yet. What I worry about is your lack of interest in the
beautiful game of soccer. It is a shame."