Videos & A Wedding

Videos

Here is a video of a fairly atypical rickshaw ride, since there was almost no traffic on this particular day. A contrasting video will follow unless I think it will scare my parents too much. :)

A video of a traditional Indian dance with men in short jingle-bell shorts!

A video taken on the bus from Jaipur to Delhi. This is a pretty good representation of daily street life on the less-crowded streets of Jaipur.

and, a link to the latest photos on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3947629&l=9722a25d9d&id=695125193

I added wedding photos from the wedding I went to last week with my host family. It was my host brother's best friend's brother's wedding. He is a Hindu Brahmin, and he married a Sikh girl from Punjab so there was lots of excited gossip about the cross-religion match. It is still fairly uncommon for people to marry outside of their castes in India. My host family is Bengali, so my mom Sheela is searching in Kolkata and West Bengal for a bride for my 24 yr old brother Sanket (aka Tillu, his nickname in the house). She is just searching for options, though- he will have the final say after he meets the different women she has picked out for him.