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By Kathleen Seiler Neary
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family portrait Kiran Ghia and Rahul Rajkumar moved to Montgomery County in 2012 from Brookline, Massachusetts, and in August 2014, bought a home in Bethesda’s Wyngate neighborhood. They have two children: son, Zaki, 3, and daughter, Rumi, 21 months. What they do: Kiran is an attorney in Washington, D.C., and Rahul is trained as an internist and now works at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. What Surprises Them About Montgomery County: “We’re struck by how international Bethesda is,” Rahul says. “Our children attend day care and their class has people from every part of the world.” They were pleased to stumble onto the India School, a South Asian cultural center close to their house. “It just warmed our hearts that this community offers things like that,” Kiran says.
Rahul Rajkumar with daughter, Rumi; wife, Kiran Ghia; and son, Zaki.
What They Wish They’d Known Before They Moved Here: “The summers here are really hot,” Rahul says. “We stayed inside a lot more.” But they’ve found a flip side to the heat. Says Kiran: “We don’t need to walk outside in our sleeping bags in the wintertime like we did in Boston!”
photo by skip brown
Where They Went on Their Last Date: The couple booked a baby sitter and sneaked away for an afternoon date at Wildwood Kitchen in Bethesda while the kids were napping. “It was a perfect lunch,” Kiran says. “We enjoyed the ambiance, and the food was delicious.”
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