A Private Celebration
Twenty-five years of
Rajni & Saket
Told in dust, light, and the people who stayed.
—days to go
1999
year 01 of twenty-five
She wore cream silk. He forgot the rings in the other jacket.
Bombay, December. Monsoon had cleared a week early that year. Four hundred guests. One borrowed sherwani from his cousin after the ring crisis. A photograph nobody remembers taking became the only one of the two of them actually laughing.
We did not know how to do any of this. We only knew we would do it together.
A quarter century, flown through
Every room they built. Every place they came back from.
2001
First flat. Bandra. The one with the broken ceiling fan.
And the people who kept showing up.
1 / 9
Twenty-five years. One number.
Rebuilt from every photograph in this room.
14 · 12 · 2026
The actual bit
Will you be there?
Dinner at eight. Dancing after. If you have children bring them, if you have stories bring more of them. Tell us by the thirtieth of November.
WhereAltair Capella, Kolkata
DressBlack tie, with permission to break it
FromSeven in the evening
Reply by30 November, 2026
Built for Rajni & Saket,
on their twenty-fifth, by someone who loves them both.
Kolkata · 2026 · With gratitude
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