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India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Pune, India

Extracurricular activities

Throughout the semester, students may choose from a wide variety of extracurricular activities and private lessons in areas such as:

  • Yoga
  • Classical Indian music
  • Instrumental music
  • Bollywood dance
  • Batik and weaving

The ACM staff in Pune help coordinate the cultural and extracurricular activities of students on the program.  Students also have the opportunity to attend music and dance recitals, religious festivals, and a variety of other cultral events.  Many students combine their extracurricular activities with their formal research projects.

A local newspaper photo of Colorado College student Becca Von Trapp, lighting candles on Diwali, the traditional Indian "Fesitval of Lights."

India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Katie Blanchard Although spending five months in Pune, India was one of the most challenging things I have ever done, it was also one of the most fulfilling. India is a place where intense beauty and sadness are both intertwined and inseparable to an extreme that I have yet to see anywhere else. I felt such a sense of empowerment and success when I became able to navigate the streets of Pune by myself, or when I could hold a conversation in Marathi with my host mother or a rickshaw driver. Those little things caused me to gain a much broader understanding of the world.

—Katie Blanchard, India, Fall 2008

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