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Married, more or less

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 [...]

Vacation India, part 3

Mumbai to Goa, March 31–April 4, 2003
We arrived in Goa on Monday, March 31, 2003, and the vacation began. The scenery got greener as we crawled through Goa and somewhere along the way we picked up Les, a friend of Kara’s.
He’d been traveling across India for the past month or so and had just left [...]