Osho International Meditation Resort

A walled compound of black marble, bamboo, and modernist pyramids in the heart of Koregaon Park, set in lush gardens with peacocks. The resort is no longer open to casual sightseers -- access requires a day pass, registration, an HIV test, and the purchase of a maroon robe to wear inside -- but you can walk the perimeter and take in the strange atmosphere from outside.

What is open to the public is the Osho Teerth Park next door: a beautifully landscaped garden with streams, sculptures, and meditation pavilions, free to enter and a genuine pleasure. The neighbourhood around it -- German Bakery, Koregaon Park's cafe strip -- evolved largely to serve the ashram's international crowd and still has more flat whites per square mile than anywhere else in Maharashtra.

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A story
The controversial guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later Osho) made Pune his base in the 1970s, attracting tens of thousands of mostly Western seekers. After a turbulent decade in Oregon and a deportation from the United States, he returned here in 1987 and died on the property in 1990. His ashram has since rebranded as a 'meditation resort' but the orange robes and the swimming-pool-with-bamboo aesthetic are unchanged.

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