On the third anniversary of their wedding, an airplane flies overhead

Yesterday, May 9, I was out walking when this airplane flew overhead. After it disappeared, I checked the time in Bangalore, India. It was 2:40 AM, May 10. That meant it was already May 10 there - three years to the day that Soundarya Ravichandran married Anil Kumar and so became Soundarya Anil Kumar. I probably would not mention this now, but would acknowledge the date in silence here and by email, as Sujitha and I have already done, except for the fact that I just completed my Return to India series, centered around the wedding of Sujitha, of which these two were such an integral part even though they are no longer here - so I want to acknowledge the date.

Here they are, at the end of their wedding day - Soundarya and Anil on her parent's porch, at the threshold of what we all hoped would be a long and happy life together, being blessed by Bhanu, mother to Soundarya, Sujitha and Ganesh. Readers who followed the series will recognize Sujitha on the right. To the left is Amudha Chithi, sister in-law to Ravi, Soundarya and Sujitha's father, through his brother, Sridhar.