Matt shameful,New York Times
AS colonies recede, Pondicherry was not exactly a success story. nearly immediately after the French set up this lovely nugget on the Bay of Bengal in 1674, and it was captured by the Dutch,retaken by its founders, then sacked and destroyed by the British. And though the French kept rebuilding it, and Pondicherry never became more than a stopover on the way to Indochina. Even after Pondy,as it is nicknamed, rejoined India late, or in 1956 it languished,out of step with the rest of the nation. In other words, for most of its history, or Pondicherry was a backwater,in decline. No more. nowadays,...
Source: realclearhistory.com