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Residency

8/20/2010

Hello everyone,

The Foreign Residents Registration Office in Darjeeling is full of stacks of old moth eaten ledgers and distinctly smells like mushrooms. The process for attaining Indian residency was actually fairly straight forward for South Asian bureaucracy. All it took was one of the large ledgers to be opened, two forms for each of us, filled out in quadruplicate, passport photos of every member of the family in quintuplicate, a centuplicate of stamps and signatures and to endure one unmerited scolding about our wrong visas which in the end happened to actually be the right visas.

Back at our residence in Kaffer, the roof was leaking. It happened to be leaking above the head of Asher’s bed and directly at the feet of ours. After two and a half months of closed doors, shut windows, drawn curtains and monsoon rains, we came back to find our bedroom completely covered in a fine mold. The damp bed clothes served as a little Petrie dish for the fungal explosion which overtook our room and left it smelling like the FRRO in Darjeeling.

Our feet are leaking. The next morning, Asher and I ...

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Residency

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