Taj Blue Diamond Pune
11, Koregaon Road Pune, Maharashtra, 411 001, India
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Pune, India -first weeks of shooting
So, I'm cheating slightly. I"m backdating. I arrived here in Pune around Oct 26th and started shooting the next day. We shot most of the movie in a private house in an area called the Sindh Colony. Stayed at the Taj Blue Diamond in Pune. Pune is a fairly large and rapidly growing city about 3-4 hours from Bombay. Not a whole lot of interesting …
Freezing in India
OK, well, not exactly freezing, but Pune is significantly cooler than Delhi. We jumped right into action after our short plane ride south, taking a bus to Aga Khan Palace where Gandhi and his wife Kasturba were imprisoned after Gandhi had begun the Quit India movement in 1942 (civil disobedience movement for independence from Britain). During her …
Getting schooled
Today we visited children in an orphanage, a school, and a shelter throughout Pune and its surrounding rural area. The orphanage, called Save Our Schools (SOS) village, is divided into 20 small cottages (10 children and one "mother" to each cottage). The campus is beautiful and very well maintained- the place felt more like a refuge than an …
Buddhist caves and a wild ride
Yesterday was a blast! Hopefully I'll have my pics from yesterday and the day before loaded soon- the computers here are making it difficult/impossible. By the way, as I’m writing this the lights just went out for a minute- this happens regularly for 30-60 second at a time. On my first day here I thought it was odd that Indians just ignored …
Stress be gone!
During our pre-departure orientation in Madison the university folks told us we'd end up learning more about ourselves during this seminar than about Indian culture. For my part I have realized in just a week and a half that I’m entirely dependent on the computer and internet access. At this hotel there are two somewhat unreliable computers …



