Tag Archives: marriage

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 [...]

Small world after all

For the past two weeks I’ve started becoming rather familiar with the underground world of primary schools in Birganj.
For the next year I’ll be working with primary English teachers, helping them to develop their teaching and English skills. At the moment this requires lots of visits to my cluster of schools, roughly 26 in the [...]