I met a man there named Puttin.
Yes, Puttin—no, Not *Putin*. He advised me, "two Ts because I'm not that man." He lead us to a tuktuk with a decal of Che Guevara on the front. Greeting everyone we passed with true familiarity, they returned him in kind; bobbling heads, smiling.
I attended an “inter-caste” destination wedding in Tamil Nadu between two first-generation Americans. There I danced with Brahmins (the family of the atheist meat-eating groom) and caste abolitionists (the family of the religious vegetarian bride) alike.