Raj's mother Madhu Singh in the living room of her home in Old Baneshwar.

I had been the guest of the Singhs once before, in 1985. Raj was in the U.S., so Madhu and the late Vishnu Singh graciously showed me around the valley.

When Vishnu and Madhu built their large three-story house in the 1960s, Baneshwar was a suburban village surrounded by rice paddies. The paddies are gone, replaced with the urban sprawl of the growing city.