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Once a quaint, little French territory in TamilNadu,
Pondicherry upholds its French traditions to this
day. It is a town which, phoenix-like, rose from its
ashes, after the British literally razed it to the
ground in the 18th century.
Today, it has blossomed
into quite an industrial centre as well. The home of
the widely acclaimed Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville
(City of the Dawn), Pondicherry still retains the
original beauty of the French architecture,. and the
tantalizing tastes of its Indo-French cuisine.
The
Strand of the Pondicherry's Sea Beach, its Matri
Mandir, Raj Nivas, Museum, Botanical Gardens,
Institute of Indology, Church of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, and umpteen Hindu temples including those of
Muthumariamman and Velayudhaswami, can all provide
unpretentious relation to tired bodies and minds.
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