Monthly Archives: May 2004

Married, more or less

May 19, 2004 – 5:32

Yesterday Binita, her parents, Rai Uncle and his wife, and I went over to the West Bengal Marriage Registration Office. We’re just another step closer to actually being married.
If you want to get marriage legally in India and/or Nepal, it’s quite complicated. There’s a clear separation between a legal marriage and a regular marriage.
In the [...]

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Monkeyfear

May 4, 2004 – 10:21

The day before Venu was to leave Darjeeling and head back to Nepal we met for lunch in Chowrastra. I wanted to send a few things to some pals in Nepal and proof that I was in Darjeeling and that, yes, marriage plans were going ahead as planned.
It’d been a month since I’d seen any [...]

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