Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (48 page)

My parents shortly after their wedding in 1967. They carried these photos of each other in their wallets.

My father's graph of expenses in 1967, the year my parents married. The spike in June represents his wedding trip to Fiji, and the one in September shows their trip back to the United States.

Champak and Tara in 1969, just after their wedding.

The young professor and his children, New Zealand.

LEFT:
Our first stop in the United States: Disneyland, 1978.

BELOW:
In our new home in Canton, Michigan, ca. 1979. Note the tropical wallpaper mural.

Growing up in Michigan in the 1980s.

My brother, Nayan, at his wedding in 1998, with our uncle Champak.

Mala with her family on their first trip to the United States, when I first met her at my brother's wedding and learned part of her story.

My mother (left), Mala, and Mala's mother-in-law with Mala's daughter, Kirthi, 1978.

Jaydeep (far left) and his family in Kalyaan, outside Mumbai, India, 2001.

Minal Khatri (third from right) with her siblings and cousins at her sixteenth birthday party in London, 2002.