valentine’s day
India celebrates Valentine’s day… apparently it is one of those Hallmark holidays that has helped establish the notion of “cultural imperialism.”
Our Valentine’s day was supposed to be our first in Mumbai. But, the 20 hour train we thought we were getting on turned out to be a 41 hour train and one night became two. We spent the 14th eating masala cashews and yellow raisins, staring though a foggy window at the countryside flying by, and adjusting our angle of recline while reading to each other. Needless to say, that much time in a lilliputian compartment makes you think about things like proximity, partnership and, yes, love. And now that it is a story, safely in a traveled past, I can’t imagine a more romantic memory to have shared.