My First Beach Experience
That heated debate! Mountains or Beaches?
Believe me, I have seen and lived around my fair share of mountains of Jammu & Kashmir as well as Uttarakhand! They are undeniably stunning! The mountains that always create curiosity of what lies underneath, or ahead of it! What is it that they’re hiding or may be guarding! All these questions, yet, I always craved something that seemed endless yet, the end. Something that doesn’t create curiosity, but assurance of a horizon! Because in life, we need both!
Unarguably, there are many beautiful towns and cities with beaches in India. Yet, we chose Pondicherry.
Pondicherry, established as the French trade centre in 1674, was originally named Putucceri, ‘Putu’ meaning ‘new’ & ‘ceri’ meaning ‘village’ in the Tamil language, the oldest language in the world. Pondicherry has been a haven or should I say ‘pied de terre’ for French & Dutch people in the 17th Century. It got freedom in the year 1954 and was named as one of the six Union Territories of India in 1962 (now eight, after the addition of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir in 2019). The Union territory came back to its local name Puducherry in the year 2006.
And finally, in 2021, I got to spent a weekend at pondy’s! However, living in Dehradun, surrounded by the luscious mountains, why would someone…
