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 […]

Fragile.

Less than an hour after the brief Skype conversation with Arun and Anjali the advertised email with a handful of pictures pings into my meticulously curated inbox. I hate having unread messages in my inbox, it feels like dishes pilled on the counter, calling for attention, guilt by neglect. The normal nag of this red […]

Internalizations Gone Wild

I grew up assuming that I was adopted because my biological relatives could not take care of me. Implicit within that assumption was that they did not want to take care of me. I never found it to be very harsh. I just assumed that they were unable to care for me and so they […]