I hadn't really heard of Pune and people kept telling me it was a sleepy hilltown. It was only a week or so back that I really paid any attention to it. It's enormous. It's the biggest city in Asia beginning with P, which is a prime pub quiz question if ever I heard one. If it was in UK only London would be bigger.
My assessment, which is based on almost no empirical evidence, is that this perception of sleepiness is based on two things:
1. Everything seems to shut at 5.
2. The trees. They entirely dominate the city. And I don't mean saplings in planters at the side of the road, I mean big, gnarled, haunted-house beasties growing through everything. It creates an atmosphere completely unlike anywhere I've ever been, and I don't say that very often.
2. The trees. They entirely dominate the city. And I don't mean saplings in planters at the side of the road, I mean big, gnarled, haunted-house beasties growing through everything. It creates an atmosphere completely unlike anywhere I've ever been, and I don't say that very often.
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