Quick blog update for you this time! I’ve been busy busy busy writing a 10pg paper for my Development Economics course that’s due tomorrow. What are they doing to us, giving us actual work?! We’re here to explore India! Just kidding... kind of.
Anyways, today was a national holiday in memory of Mahatma Gandhi, or Gandhiji so we had a little field trip instead of class to visit Aga Khan Palace where Gandhi was held prisoner along with his wife and colleagues after some time. It was actual quite beautiful even if the sun refused to come out, and it’s always interesting to go to those historical sites and think that 65 years ago, Gandhi walked the same grounds we stand on today. Even stranger to think he was held captive there.
Although some of Gandhi’s ashes were spread here to be near his wife’s (she died in “internment”/prison), his ashes were spread all over the world in the cities he traveled to.
Enjoy the photos!
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| Gandhiji's room/prison cell |
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| The outside of the palace |
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| Gandhiji's memorial at the palace with some of his ashes |
Good post. Bustling and commercial, leafy and slow, cosmopolitan and vintage, Pune effortlessly adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It is a city where history often asserts itself, but with a careless lightness. Check out all hotels near Pune Railway Station also.
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