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| House No. 849, Dastur Meher Road. |
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| Cafe Garden. |
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| Ghee masala dosas in an alley. |
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| Mosque lit up for Ramzan. |
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| Ambassador car, St. Xavier's Church, Camp. |
The lights go out
in Dastur Meher road.
The lights come on
in Cafe Garden.
Main Street is bereft
of Cafe Naaz
Kheema pav
at New Cafe Naaz.
Seher at 3
Iftaar at 7
It isn't Ramzan
till the king says so.
Baba Jaan
at Baba Jaan chowk.
A small kadai
near Karachi Sweets.
Cafe Yazdan is shut.
Manney's has gone.
Wonderland in shadows
Sheekh kebabs are out.
Crocs at 4
Step out in style.
Bra-less at Tulsi
Soixante-neuf
on the rickshaw meter.
Five days to Ash Wednesday
Can the blind lead the blind?
'Keep away from negative people
They always have a problem for every solution.'
(Pune
1 March 2025)
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All pics taken by Brian Mendonca in Pune on 1/3/25. Updated 2/3/25.
Notes
Hazrat Babajaan: A sufi saint from Afghanistan who passed on in Pune in 1931. Towards the end of her life she used to lie on her cot in full view of passersby. Her simple one-room dwelling houses her memorial under the neem tree under which she used to sit.
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