History

It was right after the Siddhi day in November 1926, Sri Aurobindo retired from daily contact with his disciples and made the Mother in charge of their care and the Ashram. Thereafter he saw them...

The Historical Society of Pondicherry is a Hundred Years Old

Chronicles and Documents

By Claude Marius, Vice-President of HSP

Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathi was born on 11 December 1882. During a rather short life of 39 years, Bharati made a tremendous impact as a poet of Tamil nationalism and Indian freedom...
The idea of « renunciation » can cover two separate realities in Indian culture. The first one is referring to a minority of people, known as « Sadhûs »...
Actupondy has chosen to focus on a popular institution in Pondicherry : the French Alliance (Af). Most people know of its existence but little about how it was created and how it evolved. Dr Nallam, eminent personality in Pondicherry and President of the Af since 1999, received us for an interview...