I woke up on the morning of May 10, 2009 in a luxury hotel suite next to a woman with warm blonde hair and a kind face and realized, in a way more felt than seen, that everything had changed. I was a husband, and although we’d exchanged the actual vows the day before, the
One of the strangest side-effects of growing up and leaving the world of my parents behind is that, after countless bar crawls and mornings feeling like the Cryptkeeper, I find myself missing the rigid frivolity of a Bengali party. There’s something masochistic about this. Few occasions are as deeply rooted in secret rules of engagement (and

