Tuesday, December 15, 2009

A Pune Christmas

Pune Camp was as cosmopolitan as it got till the 1990s. You had Muslim butchers who openly supported the Pakistani cricket team. You had Iranians, Palestinians and Africans who claimed streets for their own. You had the Brahmins who sneered at cow-eaters and cheered during Ganpati. You had Parsis, who baked bread and ran restaurants. And you had the Christians. Who went carol singing during Christmas like it was the most natural thing to do. The thing was… it was.
That’s what made a Pune Christmas beautiful.
And every carol singing troupe must surely start with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stEjTFMb940

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