A grid of colonial-era streets between the canal and the sea, painted mustard and white, with bougainvillea over every wall.
Walk it before 9am — the light is good, the streets are empty and it is not yet hot. Most of these are private homes; photograph the streets, not the interiors.
A Ganesha temple that predates the French, with 40 gold-covered panels inside and a resident temple…
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A 1.2 km sea wall and promenade closed to vehicles every evening, with the Gandhi statue, the old…
The ashram founded in 1926, centred on the flower-covered samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a…
A neo-Gothic basilica of 1907 in the Tamil quarter, with 24 stained-glass panels telling the life of…