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Not fully! 
Would have been, had you written as 'Mukund'... 
Any proper noun should begin with a capital letter. This was the way I was taught English in my school.
Okay anyway, let me NOT teach/take English class here & end up in one more argument. It is just fine, unless & until (y)our names are written sans spelling mistake(s). 
Ben wrote:
Is there a cultural signifigance to NOT delivering bad news?
Ben
* I am a collector of old books. Part of my collection is an un-abridged Webster's Dictionary from about 1860. In the introduction (how many people read the introduction to dictionaries?) Webster wrote something the effect "English is a living phonetic language so the spelling of words have and will change over time...". I read that and said to myself, I am not a bad speller. I am just ahead of everyone else."
Ben,
I really dont know much about the "NOT delivering bad news", because never been more than a week in my client's place out of India (only once in Avago Tech S'pore, that too, that guy was a Keralite (from Kerala, India), who now works with my previous company in Chennai!)...
Maybe due to the reason that we work at a client's place who pay us, so lets NOT disclose/convey anything bad to them immediately on its onset. Lets wait for some time to see if the cyclone gets diverted/subdued by itself.
As per your aheadness (is this is a correct word?) in English, I can say something interesting that happened during my 10th standard in my school. My English teacher was a lady, the AHM (Assistant Head Mistress), very passionate for English but stubborn about its spelling...
She used to teach us to spell words like woollen as, " 'w', double 'o' (instead of 'o', 'o'), double 'l', 'e', 'n'...
Once a guy was mischievous in her class & got caught in her eyes. She made him to stand up & asked to spell this very same word.
Luckily, he could remember her methodology & spelt correctly in the way she taught. She was a bit surprised.
She asked for the second time; he spelt correctly.
Third time - correct.
Fourth time... Fifth time... Sixth time... murmours started to erupt in the class, but it still it went on & on...
I can remember it like still it was only y'day class... fourteenth time she asked hi the same thing... Entire class was watching curiously with a doubtful smile... He started sweating, his face changing from fun to fear...
He spelt like this...
Woollen - Double 'u', double 'o' (instead of 'o', 'o'), double 'l', 'e', 'n'...
Thats it... She came down from the small podium like a thunder & just pinched him in his stomach & increased its power.
Telling that, even if thousand times she asked him, he must (not should) have spelt it correctly without giving the unnecessary stress on the normal 'w' as double 'u'...
Then she turned jolly & said to everybody that, "English is an irrational language, you can bend or break it as you wish; but that was NOT the right (st)age to do it, only (after) if we became Master of English literature [MA Eng].
I still follow her since I ve become an Engineer.
One more thing she taught as a rule is, "Never use "whether" when you convert Interrogative sentences from Direct Speech to Indirect Speech, because chances are more that you will fall into the pit of "weather". So, always use the small, simple & straight "if", that is 100% gramatically correct & easy to use. 
I was/am/will be always spellbound by her nuances & tricks in English. 
