Race is a touchy topic these days, with almost every complaint being pegged as racist.

Don't like the food at the Geylang bazaar? Racist.

Complained that the Malay wedding downstairs is noisy? Racist.

Found a Chinese lion dance noisy? Racist, going by the above logic.

In a video recently uploaded by Facebook page Millennials of Singapore, Caitanya Tan, a musical theatre performer who has acted in Channel 5 series Tanglin, shares what it was like growing up with an Indian name. A public discourse on race and racism follows, naturally.

Her full name is Caitanya Dasi Tan Feng Ming, but Tan emphasises that she is 100 per cent Chinese — resulting in a dissonance between her name and racial identity.

She recalls her years in primary school where she was on the receiving end of inadvertent racism, as curious school mates would ask her questions about her ethnicity and background, as well as make fun of the Indian aspects of her name.

Towards the end of the video, Tan shares that later in life, she decided to pronounce her name as "Kay-tanya" instead of "Chai-tanya", as she felt the former sounded more international, and thus more befitting of her occupation as an international performer.

You can watch the full video here:

The response to the video, however, was quite divided — some felt that Tan herself was being racist, while others said Tan presented an opportunity for education, applauding her for rising above her childhood experiences to embrace her individuality:

In response to the ongoing debate, Tan posted a link to a March 2017 blog post on her site, where she wrote about the full story behind her name.

She has also made a response live video, which you can watch here if you have about 15 minutes:

But everything aside, one thing's for sure — Caitanya is indeed a very cool name:

You can read the link the commenter pointed to here.

Top photo: screenshot from video