Bigger India
An Indian City With Audacious Attitude
Punekars, as Pune residents are called, are considered high-handed across the region – often to the point of rudeness.
On a rainy September day, I was wandering the streets of Sadashiv Peth, a neighbourhood in the old quarters of Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra. As I passed a temple, my eye was caught by a large, colourful signboard, written in the local Marathi language: