Reflections on a subcontinental year

[dtto]

Cross-posted to our travelblog, elephantkitty.
It's been over a year now since we settled into our life in the subcontinent - hard to believe that the time has passed so quickly. It was around this time last year that I was stumbling through the streets of Banares on crutches, struggling with Hindi script, and developing a bad, hacking cough from the pollution

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[jonathannil]

Someone from that NLG delegation is presenting here at Red Emma's tommorow night. I'm gonna try to make it.

[jonathannil]

Wait, do you mean Hindus invite like random Christians that aren't their friends? I don't really understand what you mean? Just that they don't exclude people from their wedding on the basis of being Hindu/Christian? But they would Muslims?

[dtto]

Yeah, literally. I mean, I think they know each other peripherally, but they make a point of showing up for minority solidarity.

On the other hand, desi weddings in general tend to be huge. We've attended several weddings where we had a very tenuous connection to the couple (i.e. friend of a cousin of the groom).

[dtto]

You should definitely go. Please say hi to both of them for me!