The day after we went to Ellora, we all piled into a van and a car, luggage and all, to head out to Chahardi. Turns out that Chahardi is a village where some of Purnima’s family (the Patil family) lives and it’s a real village. Dirt roads, animals, farms, no mobile reception and the like. The Patil family owns the 3 largest houses in the village, they are literally room after room, courtyard after courtyard. The original tour I got from Ravi Bhao* was, “it’s like a train, room leads to room leads to room, like the coaches in a train following each other.” Looking at Purnima’s family and then looking at Eric and saw an Indian version of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”. More and more members of Purnima’s family kept coming up, I couldn’t
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