Final Days: Wrap Up

Cover Photo: View from a hotel in Pune looking out over the city with a new Metro line under construction. In and Around CHennai

Waiting in Chennai

Cover Photo: Portion of the Chennai Government Museum. One of the coolest campus’ I’ve ever explored. Beautiful old buildings with a maze of paths and beautiful trees and vegetation. Chennai Since April 13th

Goodbye Trichy – Days 10-16

Cover Photo: Sunset view from the top of the Tiruchirappalli Rock Fort. April 7 – 13th

Trichy – Days 7-9

Cover Photo: Image of a few buildings in one of the many villages we visited. Photo: Suryakumar M There continues to be more and more press about my story and search. The most important of this press in terms of practical help are the pieces run in local languages and by local agencies. You can […]

Trichy – Days 4-6

Cover Photo: Image of the ceiling of tent we sought refuge under while investigating leads at a Roman Catholic church in Pudukottai (my purported birth village). Visit to Pudukottai and MUTHARASANALLUR Food

Day 2 & 3 – Delhi Ruled Out – On to Trichy

Cover Photo: Image of India Gate during Anjali and my morning walk circumventing the park. Photos From The Day First Four Images: India Gate from outside of the barrier (ongoing construction). Pretty red flowering plant on the grounds of the India Gate park. Yours truly in front of the India Gate with the Delhi sun […]

Day 1 – Jeewan Nursing Home

Cover Photo: Image of myself and another young boy at the orphanage/hospital in Delhi. March, 1991. Day 1 Photo Dump Photo Descriptions First four images are from 1991 when my father and I stayed in Delhi and visited the Jeewan Nursing Home. Image of our driver and his rickshaw and an entrance to a Jeewan […]

Family In Flux

A theme that keeps cropping up is this idea that adoptees, although I still don’t really like that title, are not really related to their adoptive families. It seems that underlying this argument is the assumption that family is defined by who is biologically related to each other. Obviously though, as I’m sure everyone acknowledges […]

My File Part II: Bites Away

[This is a continuation from My File Part I: A Baby’s Biography] Sitting on my hardwood bedroom floor I pulled back the manila cover. An old typwritten piece of white stained paper sat in front of me. The top of the page read “Congregation of the Sisters of The Cross of Chavanod” below in bold […]