In my "Life without Penny" series the four male principal characters in TBBT split up. Only Sheldon stays at Caltech, Leonard returns home to Princeton, Howard moves to the Kennedy Space Centre and Raj returns to his alma mater of Cambridge University. What happened to Raj? Part 6 - Raj attends weddings

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By fortunate coincidence Priya's wedding in India was scheduled a week before Leonard's wedding in California. Raj was able to fly round the world to attend both weddings.

First Raj flew from London to Delhi for Priya's wedding, this was his first trip to India in 12 years. Dr. Koothrappali threw a lavish Indian wedding party for his daughter Priya and her new husband Sanjay, another lawyer. Raj was happy for his sister but the family reunion consisted of lots of long lost relatives asking when they would be attending HIS wedding. After living in a quiet English university town the noise and crowds of India were a real shock to the system. Raj was happy to make his farewells to India and continue around the world.

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Raj then flew from Delhi to Tokyo and then on to Los Angeles for the wedding of Leonard and Leslie. Raj was happy to be back in California and be reunited with Leonard, Sheldon and Howard.

Two days before the wedding the four of them had a 24 hour video game session in Sheldon's apartment. Next day Raj had a meeting with his astrophysics colleagues from Caltech and Stanford. They discussed their latest batch of Hawaii telescope data and discussed the paper that they were writing, this included some data analysis done by one of Raj's undergraduate project students. Raj had promised Cambridge that he would do some Science on this trip in return for time off work in term time.

Then he attended Leonard and Leslie's wedding, a good time was had by all, Raj had the chance to meet more old Caltech friends. Next day he did the last part of his round the world journey by flying from Los Angeles to London. He bumped into the newlyweds at the airport, en route to their honeymoon in Hawaii.

Leonard shook Raj by the hand "Thanks for coming Raj, great to see you again. Safe journey back to England." Then Leslie gave him a hug "Thanks Raj, don't forget to invite us to your wedding." Raj had a lot to think about on his flight home.

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Next September, at the start of the new academic year, there was a big retirement party for Professor Anderson at Trinity College. Most of the astrophysics department were there, complete with spouses and partners, it was quite an evening. However, Raj attended the party alone.

Next day Raj had a video chat with his parents in India.

"Hello Mummy and Daddy, greetings from Cambridge. I need you to do something for me, find me a wife…"