The beautiful city of Pune makes me wonder why am I not staying there? Everytime I visit that place I find more reasons to love it. This time there were 15 more reasons, the 15 amazing bloggers I met at the Bloggers Lunch Pune. I knew I had to be in Pune this weekend so, I called up Rohit and asked him if we can meet over lunch and rest of the bloggers friends as well. The geek that he is, put up a
wiki and set the scene. We decided that we should not spam whole of pune but tell about the lunch only to close friends and the bloggers that we met at the last meet. Priyank arranged the venue and we were all set.
The lunch was good and the high point was meeting everyone. Among them were some of the best bloggers of Pune. Though I got bit late, but was there on time for the lunch (gave another chance to Rohit for saying "Tarun is never late for the lunch").
Lets follow the rest of the events in the pics. As they say picture is worth thousand words and I have added few more.
Meetu, Sumit and Prasoon.
Jasleen and Bhavya
It was pleasure to meet
Rohit (partner in this crime like most other),
Priyank (arranged for the venue and lunch, always enthusiastic about implementing the ideas),
Meetu (great movie reviewer and always fun to talk to... Meetu remember that you have promised me a tea for the next time),
Bhavya (great girl, loves to do a lot of things. Got to know that she is an excellent driver just like most other girls :)),
Sumit (the best photographer and loves sharing his wisdom with others for example remove the lens cover before shooting.),
Prasoon (got to meet him for the first time, nice guy),
Sachin (met him for the first time but sounded like a very resourceful guy. If you are looking to go out for lunch or dinner contact him he can book a place for you anywhere is Pune),
Pramila (met her first at the blogcamp pune last year she was with Purplenova then, now she is with ITVidya. Always a pleasure to meet her.),
Harsha (this dude is amazing, walked for 40 mins to come to the meet not only talks but lives a green life. This was probably our last meeting in Pune as he will be leaving Pune soon.), Krishna (met him for the first time, nice guy),
Amit (he is a php pro. It is always a pleasure to meet him),
Ramana (one of the latest person to join the blogging bandwagon. Very enthusiastic and keen to learn, wish you good luck for your blog journey sir),
Jasleen (works for Great foundation) ,
Krity (is the one who designed the blogcamp mumbai style logo, she is always ready to help us with designs. Very nice girl.) and Isha (met her for the first time, she is Krity's sister). Looking forward to more such fun meetings.
For rest of the pics please visit
my picasa album.
Visit
Priyank's blog for details about the meet.
If you missed this meet and want to be part of such meets in future or if you are a Pune blogger then you can join the
Pune Bloggers Google Group.
Updates:
Another good coverage of the meet at
Bhavya's Blog.
Pune Mirror of Times Group, covered the Bloggers meet :
Special thanks to my friend Deepak Patil for this picture.
Tarun Chandel
Blogging, Eating and Meeting
The bunch of bloggers at the lunch for bloggers.
Special thanks to my friend Deepak Patil for this picture.
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30 comments:
Great post! Nice pics.
Thanks for arranging the Bloggers meet.
I had a nice time interacting with all these guys - got to meet up like minded people.....
Hope you have a nice journey back to Mumbai.
Rohit, had sent me a mail, but couldn't meet up to all this fun. :)
Thank you for the mention and more importantly for the invitation. Thanks to your initiative and the help that I received promptly from
Amit, my blog is up and running and I would appreciate all of you visiting the blog and commenting.
www.rummuser.com is the handle.
I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting and the lunch and have posted a comment on barcamppune
Thank you for the mention and more importantly for the invitation. Thanks to your initiative and the help that I received promptly from
Amit, my blog is up and running and I would appreciate all of you visiting the blog and commenting.
www.rummuser.com is the handle.
I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting and the lunch and have posted a comment on barcamppune
I am so jealous of you.. you have all the fun in the world!! :-)
--> Thanks Priyank.
--> Bhavya: That was whole idea of the meet. It will be good if we can make it a regular thing.
--> Ankit: No problem, may be we can catch up some other time.
--> Ramana: Good to know that you liked the meet. Amit, the nice guy he is, has got your blog up and running that is very nice thing.
--> Moksh: It was really fun to meet everyone in Pune. You should have come, may be next time.
Hey Tarun! That was quick!!
Busy to aap hai huzoor. You are welcome anytime!!
Hi Tarun Im from the Pune Mirror founf your write up of the bloggers meet interesting. Could you send us a first person write-up of the same. The latest post that you have up on your site also makes a good read. Please contact me on janice.nesamani@gmail.com at the earliest.
-->Meetu: Was not really busy but was in Pune for less time. Next time will surely visit you for tea. BTW took some pics of Pune during this visit, will post them may be tonight or as soon as I get some time to blog.
Darn!!
When was this?
I missed the bloggers meet??
Sigh....
Nice pics btw...
-->K10: Is it Ketan? The bloogers lunch was on last Saturday. I noticed that you are one of the Mutineers and guess what Ex Mutineer Harsha was there. We can surely meet some other time as I think there are going to be a lot of bloggers related activities in Pune, in coming time. Keep in touch and you can join the Pune Bloggers google group as well (http://groups.google.co.in/group/punebloggers)
Thanks for appreciating the pics :)
Tarun,
YEah its Ketan :)
Ok..will join the group..
See you when you are in town next time around.
Thank you for the favourable mention. I saw the article in Pune Mirror today. I think we need to set up a warning system of sorts so that the morning tea doesn't get sprayed on to the paper. I think it would be simpler to just subscribe to your feed.
Great meet, maybe we can do something similar the next time I am in Bombay.
Hey Tarun, well composed post... also the meet was great, it was nice meeting up with all you folks!
Read the article in today's pune mirror, and saw that you had the wrong name against me in the picture :( You have mentioned Sumit runs TastyKhana.com, it should have been Shachin ...
Anyways no issues, await the next meet :)
--> Ketan: Will surely catch up next time I am in Pune
--> Sumit: "Tea being sprayed, morning paper and my feeds", sounds like a riddle to me. Meet was really nice and ye will surely do something in Mumbai once you are here.
--> Shachin: Thanks for appreciation and sorry for the mistake, though I have it correct in the post and the link as well :) Will surely need your expertise for future meets.
Hi Tarun
I read about the meet in Pune Mirror. I also want to have a blog of my own do let me know how to get one? I read that you helped someone else as well.
Please help me as well.
Pankaj
Hey tarun, thanks for the invi.. and I apologise again for not being able to make it.
The pics have come out and really gr8.. and ur lil thoughtlets are simply amazing.. or is tongue-in-cheek the right word?? :D
hopefully next time around I shall be able to join you guys!! :)
--> Pankaj: Feel free to email me.
--> Sam: You can surely join us the next time. You can join the Pune Bloggers group on google. Thanks for appreciating the pics, though I am sure some of these bloggers are looking for me to get even (thankfully I am not in Pune :)).
The bloggers lunch was a nice experience.. really liked it..
The picture illustrations are gud.. nice idea.. :)
This is a nice read...add me, wld love to meet u rockers after 01 Aug 2008
--> Krity: It was nice to catch up with you and others at the Pune Bloggers Lunch Meet. And for the pic I am sure there are few looking to catch hold of me, but it was fun ;)
--> Gaurav: I was not around for a while, traveling most of the time (without internet access) so could not check your comment.
--> Nandu: you can add yourself to the Pune Bloggers Group (http://groups.google.com/group/punebloggers) that will make sure that you don't miss the future meets.
Very nice pics, I am sure the bloggers had great time.
I loved the pics on your blog, the way you have shot Nashik and ISB campus is really beautiful.
--> Reena: Thanks for the appreciation and you bet we had fun.
Oh I missed it...
I would like to attend the next one... would like to start a blog of my own sometime. Will keep a tab on the site.
Wow, you have a nice blog. I came to it looking for ISB. You have nice pics and bloggers meet is something unique.
I loved the first post that you have about "trail", beautifully written.
Aziz
--> Chintan: You can join the Pune Bloggers Group as that will be the easiest way to communicate. And ggod luck with your blog!
--> Aziz: Bloggers meeting offline is not that unique, we do it fairly regularly. About the post on "Leaving a Trail Behind" thanks for liking it.
Tarun I want to join the Pune Bloggers group as well. I would also like to have a blog like the rest of you.
I visited your healthy blog as well, very nice.
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