India Continued: Tulip IT and reception

Thursday afternoon Geno and I visited our friend and BU classmate, Deep, at his families company not far from where Josh lived. Deep’s father started Tulip IT and Deep is working on the marketing side of things. Basically Tulip IT provides secure LMDS-based data networks amongst other IT services. He showed us the new call center they were building and showed us around the HQ. The company just went public several months ago and has been doing very well. The lunchroom was served family-style with plates of food brought to the table. All good. Our visit also allowed me to check my email and catch up on the news.

After our visit with Deep, Geno and I headed back to Sehgal Bros. to get our second suit fitting. They had the suits loosely stitched up to ensure all the measurements were correct. Both of us made a couple adjustments and we were quickly on our way back to Josh’s place for day 3 of the wedding – taking place that evening.

Day 3 consisted of a large reception at another very nice Delhi hotel. The purpose of this part of the wedding was to invite everyone who had come to the previous events plus some. Parent’s business colleagues and others not as close to the family would be invited to this event. The event officially started at 7:30pm. At 7:30pm all the white people were there. No Indians showed up until around 8pm and Josh and Liz didn’t show until around 8:30pm. Indians like to joke that India is on IST, or India Stretch Time – meaning everything is going to late all the time. We white people never really caught on to this concept. Very often we found ourselves at major events, at the designated place and time … all by ourselves. It started to be a running joke.

Josh’s cousin is a producer in Bollywood and brought with him some dancers the reception. The dancers were scantily dressed, did some rather erotic dances, and I think almost gave Josh’s parents a hard attack. I like them, though. Again, this evening had an all-you-can-eat buffet which caused some health problems with the non-Indians the next day. Several people got sick, but luckily I didn’t have any problems. The evening also included a DJ and some dancing by the guests. The whole thing winded down around midnight when a few of us went with Deep to find someplace to go out and party some more. We went to a few places, but most were dead. We had a few drinks at one club in a hotel near the diplomatic section of town. We only stayed for one drink and went back to Deep’s (quite nice) place to have a couple more drinks and play his Xbox360 on his huge plasma screen TV with Bose surround sound system. Very nice indeed.

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