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Puducherry
Filed under Puducherry, and mostly not in it: the township lies largely in Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu, with only some parts inside the union territory.
One of the fragments that make Puducherry the administrative jigsaw it is.
Second in size only to Pondicherry, and a different proposition altogether: a working port on the Coromandel Coast that is also the administrative…
The tower on the south side of the mouth of the Mayyazhi river has been marking the entrance since 1893.
A gold-clad sphere at the centre of Auroville, set in open ground the Mother named Paix, ringed by twelve gardens and anchored to a lone banyan she marked as…
Puducherry's largest sheet of water, and only just Puducherry's: of roughly 800 hectares, 390 lie in the union territory and the rest across the line in Tamil…
Reached by a short backwater boat ride from Chunnambar near Pondicherry, Paradise Beach is a clean golden sandbar between lagoon and sea, popular for day trips.
Come expecting a working community rather than a retreat. Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, the Mother, founded it in 1926, and it grew into the institutional…
The largest coastal village in the territory sits seven kilometres out of Pondicherry, between the city and Cuddalore, with more than ten thousand people…
Andhra Pradesh surrounds it on every side, and yet this town of 35,000 answers to Puducherry, a district of the union territory marooned inside another state.
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