I was really impressed with these travel photos in the New York Times article, A Touch of France in Pondicherry. The Times said the town was like India seen through a French lens, or maybe vice versa. This history of the town was interesting as the NYT wrote:
“Almost immediately after the French set up this lovely nugget on the Bay of Bengal in 1674, it was captured by the Dutch, retaken by its founders, then sacked and destroyed by the British. And though the French kept rebuilding it, Pondicherry never became more than a stopover on the way to Indochina. Even after Pondy, as it is nicknamed, rejoined India — late, in 1956 — it languished, out of step with the rest of the nation. In other words, for most of its history, Pondicherry was a backwater, in decline.”
However, it is the quality of the photos as seen in the slide show that struck me. The colors and compositions were very striking.
bicycling in a dress has to always be a tricky proposition
Posted by: poetryman69 | April 14, 2008 at 09:45 PM