Trip to Pune

Did a two day visit to Pune. I'll do the trip in two parts, one On campus and one Off campus, as the trip was essentially to catch up with Dhruva.

On Campus: The MIT Institute of Design is a design school in Pune, part of the MIT group of institutions spread over a beautiful 200 plus acre campus on the banks of the Mula Mutha river. This was land donated by the scion of the Hindi film industry, Raj Kapoor who was laid to rest here, and wanted the land to be used only for social or educational purposes. 

I've always believed that the graduation period should ideally be time away from home, and possibly in a pretty and close to nature kind of campus, and he luckily got just that in MIT. It's such a transitional phase, of moving away from the  protected environ of ones home, when one really comes into ones own......... where the expansion of the mind could get reflected off or rather influenced by external surroundings too.....like proportionate to more earth and more sky :) 

The Mula Mutha river that runs through the campus

A weaver bird nest...the tree is full of them

A bad picture of a beautiful crescent moon :)

Dhruva pointing out their work that's on the walls

It's still Pink Floyd!...sure spans time

Sparrows....was so excited to see them...
as they're good as gone from cities :(

A design institute wall would look like this I guess !

His college building

So much for my not wanting clutter :)

The typical Maharashtrian touch...the guy behind ;)