You gotta hand it to my dad.  There is nothing he does in half-measures.  All out or nothing.

So, I should have expected that things wouldn't go as planned when they arrived.  Back in November we worked out dates (arriving just after kids' vacation started), then earlier this year we made the plan: Ajanta and Ellora caves (supposed to be some of the coolest temples in India) followed by some time in a S. India hill station.  It was going to be great!

U.S. playgrounds are for sissies.  Seriously.  Yesterday I went to two of the best playgrounds I've ever been to.  One was part of the Nehru Planetarium, the other near-by.  Both were science and inquiry based.  Most of the equipment in both of them would probably be illegal in the US. 

Today's paper had a story about a woman who was beaten up and raped by a man from her village who was known to be a "local criminal" and knew that she lived alone.  After the act he passed out (he'd been drinking heavily) and she prepared to self-immolate due to the shame.  Something stopped her though and instead she threw the the kerosine-soaked sari on him and burnt him alive.  A rape case was registered by the police against the deceased, and on request from the widow, a murder case against the rape victim. 

So, I wonder:  If your spouse brutally raped a neighbor who turned around and killed him, would you press charges?