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Pune Municipal Corporation model photograph, from the Tamhane Collection, Pune Architectural History Archive

Hidden Stories: Amid Pune’s construction frenzy, an archive that remembers those who built it

November 22, 2025 12:17 pm

As Pune’s post-1950 architecture vanishes, PAHA maps 701 buildings and salvages memories of the people behind them.

Looking through Abba, Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole, one might stumble into Pt Shankar Ghosh, Lata Mangeshkar and Hemant Kumar at this store.

Hidden Stories: at Pune’s New Rhythm House, rare records and fading formats continue to forge timeless bonds with music

September 13, 2025 1:15 pm

In today’s digital age, this Pune store offers a haven for lovers of vintage music with hard-to-find collections that have been carefully preserved and passed down generations.

Pune’s Gokhale House, home to Mahatma Gandhi’s guru and the Servants of India Society

March 17, 2024 8:23 am

Freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale’s house in Pune is now a museum that stands testimony to the social reformer’s life and his influence on the Independence movement.

In Pune’s Kothrud, an institution continues to safeguard Gandhian values

January 28, 2024 11:27 am

Apart from thousands of books and rare films on Mahatma Gandhi, the Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi’s Gandhi Bhavan in Pune also houses an urn containing his ashes.

Birds of a feather: How a group of bird-watchers form one of Pune’s most vibrant citizen science communities

October 28, 2023 7:52 pm

The Pune Bird Atlas is part of a global citizen science movement called eBird, which involves experts and enthusiasts in focused birding and documentation of species.

From Peshwa’s retreat to sports club: The long journey of Pune’s Hirabaug Town Hall

October 21, 2023 3:01 pm

Over centuries, the Hira Baug mansion changed ownership, witnessed history in the making, and became an indelible part of Pune’s heritage.

How Pune was once home to hippos that flourished in the savannah grassland

October 14, 2023 1:20 pm

Hippos were just one among the many wild animals that once flourished in the Pune region hundreds of years ago. The loss of a suitable habitat such as water bodies and rivers possibly led to their disappearance.

Older than the Ganga, this Pune river’s birth is linked to a myth of 2 apsaras and a curse

October 07, 2023 4:47 pm

The banks of the Mula-Mutha River in Pune were once verdant and boasted rich biodiversity. Rampant urbanisation, however, has destroyed the close relationship that Pune had with the river that was once its lifeline.

Amphi theatre Fergusson college. Express photograph by Arul Horizon

How an auditorium with roots in philanthropy became hub of intellectual discourse in Pune

September 02, 2023 11:58 am

Constructed in 1911-12, the NM Wadia amphitheatre at Fergusson College has been witness to important political and cultural moments in Pune, apart from being the go-to place for student gatherings for over a century now.