Pondicherry and Auroville - splendid! September 19th, 2006
The perfect wave…
you won’t find at Pondicherry. But a nice beach, many friendly and relaxed people, nice food and awesome huts for little money. So the trip to the east of India was again a fully success.
Pondicherry is a former french colony and if you have a close look, you can still recognize a little bit of french influence in the small city at the east coast of India. The policemen are wearing french hats, there are a lot of french restaurants where you can have a Pastis and excellent seafood, if you have a look at the street names you will find “Rue Dumas” etc. and the promenade at the sea is closed for the traffic in the late evening and gives you a little bit a felling like having a walk at the Cote d’Azur.
Another reason for the very relaxed atmosphere seems to be the “Sri Aurobindo Ashram” and “Auroville”, where people from all overe the world meet to meditate and live together in peace and harmony.
AurovilleImagine there’s no countries
The perfect wave…
you won’t find at Pondicherry. But a nice beach, many friendly and relaxed people, nice food and awesome huts for little money. So the trip to the east of India was again a fully success.
Pondicherry is a former french colony and if you have a close look, you can still recognize a little bit of french influence in the small city at the east coast of India. The policemen are wearing french hats, there are a lot of french restaurants where you can have a Pastis and excellent seafood, if you have a look at the street names you will find “Rue Dumas” etc. and the promenade at the sea is closed for the traffic in the late evening and gives you a little bit a felling like having a walk at the Cote d’Azur.
Another reason for the very relaxed atmosphere seems to be the “Sri Aurobindo Ashram” and “Auroville”, where people from all overe the world meet to meditate and live together in peace and harmony.
AurovilleImagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peaceI don’t know if John Lennon knew about Auroville when he wrote “Imagine”, but when I read about and visited Auroville, I immediately had to think of these lines. Auroville is a universal township in the making for people from all around the world, located right next to Pondicherry. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity– in diversity. The residents come from some 35 nations, from all age groups from all social classes, backgrounds and cultures, representing humanity as a whole. So at Auroville, there are no boarders, there is no religion, nothing to kill or die for, and all the people live in peace…Source and the site to read more about Auroville: Click here. Bangalore rockt… is
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