India
1995


In 1995, Shashi and I visited India so I could meet her family. We primarily stayed at her uncle's house in New Dehli and her Grandfather's house in the town of Pilibhit. Pilibhit is in northern India near Nepal and the Himalayas. It is also home to a field office of the WWF. This office is involved with the Tiger Conservation Project which protects the tigers in the forests surrounding Pilibhit.

These photos are images captured from video. For some reason, I forgot to take the 35MM on this trip.

San Francisco Airport.

Shashi at her uncle's house

Me, in the smoking room, Singapore

Shashi in Singapore

Shashi at one of the lounges in Singapore airport

Me in the same lounge

View from Gopal's rooftop, New Dehli

Mad Streets of Dehli

More madness

Home on the roadside

Old Dehli

Ann and Ram on the rickshaw, Old Dehli

Old Dehli

Shopping in Old Dehli

Ann doing what she does best: Shopping

Streets of Old Dehli

Produce vendors

Climbing the steep stairs to Gopal's office in Old Dehli

Chandra cooking dinner

Playful Monkies

Some tomb

Temple under construction. Has been so for decades. All work is done by hand.

Some of the intricate carvings and stone placement

Typical tools used to shape the marble

More detail work

Workers carving and polishing

More workers

Polishing the marble

More of the detail

Another Muslim tomb

Kids who came to visit us

Shashi and some goats on the steps to the tomb

Vew of one of the walls

My new friend

Graves set in stone

Mmmmm....Beer

Elephants used to ride up to the palace in Rajastan

Ram and Ann getting ready to disembark

Sleeping Mahoot

On train to Baraily...After hearing we had hit a water buffalo and found it broke the train.

Baboons on the rooftops of Pilibhit.

View from the rooftop of Pilibhit

More baboons

Jumping Baboon

Same baboon

Shashi and me, Taj Mahal

Relaxing at Shashi's uncle's house

Shahsi's aunt

View of reservoir

Shashi's mother and aunt

Relaxing at another uncle's house. This is on a college campus

Shashi, her mother and cousin

Shashi's grandfather

Cousins and aunt

Me and Shashi's uncle

Ann dropping laundry down the chute

Laundra lady down the chute

Shashi's aunt

Ram and family

Say hello. Showing how the video camera works.

Cleaning rice at the mill

On the way to Nanital

On horseback in the Himalayas

Taking a break for the horses and enjoing the view

Same thing.

Streets of Pilibhit

Streets of Pilibhit

Ram and relative

More relatives

More relatives

Shy one

Funeral pyres on the Ganges

Temple Hopping on Christmas Eve

Gopal and Chundra in Dehli

More Temple Hopping

Lotus Temple

Lotus Temple

India Gate

Hindu Temple

Shashi and her temporary tatoo

New home construction.

Back to Singapore.