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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I was walking in Chowrastra, the tourist area of Darjeeling. I had just gone by a small, private studio where I’d left some black and white film to be processed, or rather just the negatives.
The photo processing places don’t print black and white, so I searched out a fellow who had a small darkroom [...]
Kanchenjunga is not available, the tourists say in these parts. Or rather the Bengalis.
Darjeeling has been a home for people from other places for a long while now. And mostly because of its scenery, location, and, oddly, mild weather.
In comparison with the majority of West Bengal, the weather in Darjeeling is extreme: the days begins [...]
This is something new. This is something different. This is Darjeeling. It’s about as far from Birganj as I could go without leaving the subcontinent.
It’s India, but Nepali is the language, even as saturated with English and Hindi as it is. I’m starting to understand why people from Quebec call themselves French-Canadians. Here, people might [...]
