Shower. Pondy
mercredi 11 mars 2009
A kid showering himself in a street of Pondy.
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Rue de la Cathédrale
mardi 3 février 2009
A shop on a sidewalk of Rue de la Cathedrale in Pondicherry.
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Pondicherry Street Signs:
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Rue Saint Louis
lundi 2 février 2009
A rickshaw on Rue Saint Louis in Pondicherry.
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part of " Pondicherry Street Signs" www.flickr.com/photos/clodreno/sets/72157605103866875/
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Happy New Year. Pondicherry
vendredi 9 janvier 2009
A woman begging at the entrance of a little Catholic shrine in Old Pondicherry.
I'll be away for a while, so I wish you all an Happy New Year 2009.
By the way if everybody did a bit for the one in need, it would be a nice start for 2009
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Bougainvillea
vendredi 19 décembre 2008
A nice house in old Pondy
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Sonia. Pondicherry
A painter doing a huge work on the wall of a shop in a street of Pondicherry, an obvious suppporter of the Congress Party.
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Pétanque. Pondicherry
mercredi 17 décembre 2008
Playing "pétanque" in a graveyard of Pondicherry
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Sleep. Pondichéry
jeudi 11 décembre 2008
A man taking a nap on a very hot afternoon on a sidewalk of a Pondicherry street.
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Dood. Pondy
mardi 23 septembre 2008
Milk delivery in a street of Pondicherry
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Bougainvillea. Pondicherry
vendredi 12 septembre 2008
A colorful street of Pondy.
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Rue Suffren. Pondy
Rue Suffren in Pondy.
Admiral comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren (July 17, 1729 - December 8, 1788) - French admiral; was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence which claimed to have emigrated from Lucca in the 14th century. He was born in the Château de Saint-Cannat, near Aix-en-Provence in the present département of Bouches-du-Rhône. He was most famous for his campaign in the Indian Ocean, in which he successfully contended for supremacy against the established British power there, led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.
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Rue Dumas.
mercredi 3 septembre 2008
A rickshaw driver taking a rest on Rue Dumas in beautiful Pondicherry
Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
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Colors. Rue Dumas
mardi 2 septembre 2008
a sweeper on Rue Dumas. Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
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Rue de la Compagnie
The French East India Company (French: La Compagnie française des Indes orientales or Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies.
Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Director General for the Company was François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including 20 years in Japan
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Rue de Bussy. Pondicherry
samedi 30 août 2008
A rickwhaw crossing Rue de Bussy in lovely Pondy.
Charles Joseph Patissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau was the French Governor General between (1783–1785), born in 1718, died in 1785 for Pondichéry. He was used with distinction under Joseph François Dupleix in the Indies; contributed to make raise to British the seat of Pondichéry in 1748, and was named in 1782 ordering armies of land and sea beyond Cape of Good Hope. He concerted his operations with Pierre André de Suffren and fought with advantage against an extremely higher enemy in a number.
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Morning Run. Rue Dumas
mardi 19 août 2008
Jogging on Rue Dumas in Pondy.
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Rue Suffren
lundi 18 août 2008
Sweeping in Rue Suffren
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Rue de La Bourdonnais
samedi 16 août 2008
A man installed his repair shop on a sidewalk of Rue Labourdonnais in Pondicherry.
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Mahé de La Bourdonnai, naval officer. He entered the service of the French India Company and in 1724 distinguished himself in the capture of Mahé . Governor of Île de France and Île de Bourbon (later Mauritius and Réunion; 1735–46), he was placed (1740) in command of the French fleet in India. He relieved Mahé (1741), and after the outbreak of hostilities with Great Britain captured (1746) Madras, but he quarreled with Joseph François Dupleix and was removed (1746) from his governorship. On his return to France he was imprisoned (1748) in the Bastille on charges of poor administration and embezzlement. In 1751 he was tried and acquitted, largely through pressure of popular opinion.
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Rue Dupuy. Pondy
vendredi 15 août 2008
André Julien, Comte Dupuy, was Governor General of French India between 1816 and 1825.e was Governor General of Pondicherry between September 1816 to October 1825. After Treaty of Paris (1814), Pondicherry and its territories were returned to French by British for the third and last time. Then Comte Dupuy was made Governor General of it. Today we can find a street named upon him (Rue Comte Dupuy) in Pondicherry.
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Rue Francois Martin. Pondicherry
dimanche 18 mai 2008
François Martin, 1681 – November 1693.
On February 4th, 1673, Bellanger, a French officer, took up residence in the Danish Lodge in Puducherry and the French Period of Puducherry began. In 1674 Francois Martin, the first Governor, started to build Puducherry and transformed it from a small fishing village into a flourishing port-town. The French were in constant conflict, in India, with the Dutch and the English. In 1693 the Dutch took over and fortified the town considerably. The French regained Puducherry in 1699 through the Treaty of Ryswick signed on September 20, 1697.
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Rue de la Compagnie. Pondicherry
"Rue de la Compagnie", a street in Pondicherry named after the "Compagnie des Indes" based in Lorient, Brittany. A man in hos classy Ambassador looking at me.
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The French East India Company (French: La Compagnie française des Indes orientales or Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies.
Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Director General for the Company was François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including 20 years in Japan.
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Rue Dumas. Pondicherry
A rickshaw driver taking a rest on Rue Dumas in beautiful Pondicherry
Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668 - 1745) was the French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais on the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas hailed from Southern France. There is still a street in Pondicherry named after him.
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Baratha Nathyam
Young students of Baratha Nathyam training on a saturday morning in a school of Pondicherry
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Bougainvillea. Pondicherry
mardi 25 mars 2008
In a street of Pondicherry..
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A speeding rickshaw.
lundi 19 mars 2007
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Coffee
Making Coffee inside the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
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Mosquito Net.
A little kid under his mosquito net while her mother watches him..
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Lunck Break.
A rickshaw driver taking a rest and a man having his lunch break on the sidewalk in Pondicherry
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Street Shop
Selling veggies alongside the beach in Pondicherry.
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Masala Dosa.
A waiter with Masala Dosa in the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
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Working in " Beau Séjour"
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The Lighthouse
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Bilingual Wall
A wall of thee "Alliance française" in Pondichéry
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Cooking. pondicherry
A cook doing Vegetable cutlets inside the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry
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Cathedral.
A street with the cathedral in the background.
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Zooming By
A tempo zooming by, "Quai d'Ambour".
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A Beggar. Pondichéry
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Pensive. Pondicherry
Watching the Indian Ocean, on the Coromandel coast in Pondicherry
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Colorful Street. Pondicherry
Streets in Pondicherry are very nice, almost always colorful, thanks to the vegetation.
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Reading the Paper
mardi 12 décembre 2006
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A traditional house. Pondy
A traditional Tamil House
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Pondy Colors
The mood of Pondy
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The news.Pondy
lundi 13 novembre 2006
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Menu. Indian Coffe House. Pondy
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Lunch Time. Pondy
During the school break, mothers come to feed their child in front of the school in the white city of Pondicherry
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Saritha. Pondy
At the entrance of the "Patricia guest house"
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Pétanque.. Pondy
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Rickshaw. Pondy
A rickshaw waiting near the "Cluny" convent in the white city.
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A Gendarme from Pondy
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Beau Séjour
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Boutique Auroville
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Lovers. Pondy
On the Beach
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42, Rue Suffren
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"foyer du soldat". Pondichéry
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Lycée français. Pondichéry
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Off to school. Mahé
A girl leaving her typical keralite house to go to school. Traditionnal houses are so beautiful in Kerala.
Mahe is part of the Pondicherry Union locked inside Kerala. It used to be a French territory up to 1954 if I remember correctly
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A cook and a Puri. Pondichéry
dimanche 12 novembre 2006
Shot inside the Indian Coffee house. A very nice place to have coffee and very inexpensive good food.
My favorite chain restaurant in India.
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Mahé
jeudi 9 novembre 2006
The french symbol on a house... in Mahé. Mahé is located inside the state of Kerala. it's part of the Pondicherry territory.
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Art House. Pondy
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Mother. Pondicherry
Selling pictures of "Mother", the co-founder with Sri Aurobindo of the Ashram in Pondicherry.
When visiting Indian you'll often see pictures of "Mother" on the wall in their houses.
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Colors.
A colorful rickshaw I met while walking around the magical white city of Pondichéry.
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Drying up Sarees. Pondicherry
A woman on the beach in Pondichéry drying up her Sari with the help of the wind.
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Colors.
A picture you won't see too often. I hate to shoot and show sad things about India.
This was taken in Pondichéry, a very nice place, somewhat richer than Tamil Nadu. It brings a lot of people there who believe they can make more money and end up in the street.
Taken in front of the Indian coffe house, a very good and very cheap restaurant.
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Ice Cream.
A man selling Ice cream on the beach in Pondichéry..
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Fruits seller.
A woman seeling bananas on Suffren Street in Pondichéry.
I love those grey walls...
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Bougainvillea. Pondichéry
Such a nice scene, a woman wearing a sari just like the bougainvillea.. Dreamlike..
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Siesta. Pondicherry
A rickshaw driver and two women resting during the hot hours of the early afternoon..The temperature was around 42°C, and I loved it...
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