BLACKBURN-INDIA Special: Boomtown Pune
By Nick Harris 20 January 2011 The most obvious and visible sign of India's economic boom is in the vast mount of property being built - and marketed. It is impossible to drive for more than a few hundred yards without seeing another huge billboard offering dream homes for sale. A special series about the new Indian owners of Blackburn Rovers is running on sportingintelligence this week; those owners, the Rao family, live in Pune, south-east of Mumbai, and the following pictures were all taken within a few minutes of each other on a drive across the city last week.
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![Boomtown 5](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa8d660d-24a6-46a3-b132-ffb30962dd66_640x287.jpeg)
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