On the way to GMRT, we stopped at a nice roadside restaurant (forcefully suggested by GK) for lunch. Big kids playing in the small kid's playground.
A trek to Shivneri fort (birth place of Chatrapati Shivaji - a revered chieftain of Maharashtra)
A view of the Shivneri fort wall
Near the entrance to the Shivneri fort
The team at the musoleum of a muslim ruler inside Shivneri fort. Even the photographer is 'visible' in shadow space
Inside the paternal mansion of Shivaji
The oldies inside Shivaji's paternal mansion.
A bigger group sitting in a large alcove
Chief on the 'throne'
On the courtyard of paternal mansion of Shivaji
One of a series of such wire mesh dishes of the GMRT (Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope) of the National Centre for Radio Astronomy, TIFR at Khodad (near Pune). For a photo of the 'Y' shaped antenna sequence, see http://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/gmrt_hpage/Gmrt_Images/7.jpg
The director explaining (in lucid language) the principles of radio telescopy to children. Even elders are listening with rapt attention. All are seated just below a typical dish antenna.
Kids are smiling at a joke cracked by Prof. Ananthkrishnan, Director, NCRA
Two dishes of the series is visible in the background (in addition to a bald pate in the foreground)
The group sat under the shade of a column supporting a dish antenna.
The explanation is really getting dramatic
Chief in front of a disk shaped radio telescope: GMRT (TIFR) Khodad
A group photo
Young lads + a girl (an old man thrown in for good measure)
GMRT canteen
girls at the MTDC resort, Malshej ghat; notice the mountain ranges in the background.
A view of the valley from the MTDC resort
Notice of a picnic to Kondana caves an year later
