My India trek Nov 1973 - Feb 1974 - John van der Woude www.jvanderw.nl introduction |
Pondicherry
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^ Pondicherry's Indian Coffee House was a meeting point for Western travellers like me. |
^ Homeless people slept under overhangs like this; in summer the inhabitants would also sleep outside, but then on the roof terraces. |
Pondy's boulevard. Army clothes being dried. |
Fishermen's huts, rafts end nets on the beach near Pondy. |
^ Butcher's shop. In South India, a normal restaurant always was a vegetarian restaurant. If it was not, there was a special sign 'Non-vegetarian restaurant' above the entrance. I almost only ate vegetarian, and I loved the food. |
The Aurobindo ashram owned several monumental buildings from the French era. |
^ Auroville being built outside Pondy, as part of the Aurobindo ashram. |
At Kottakarai, a hamlet near Auroville. |
Sugar cane processing. |
^ Pressed cane remains were used as fuel for preparing the sugar. |
^The sugar after cooling. |