Everything in Pondichery is so... French. I'm not a France hater, but the parts of the city that we've seen so far are a bit too quiet and clean and organized for my tastes. Maybe I'm just bitter because I can't access my gmail account?
Google, I admire your intestinal fortitude for designing a mail service that won't work on 60% (my observed figure) of the machines that we encounter in Indian/Bangladeshi cyber cafes. You give the people what they want when they want and they want it all the time.
A sick little boy puked on the bus from M-puram. He swayed in his mother's arms and stared at the ceiling of the bus. The ticket collecting asshole gave hassled her about the puke on the floor so she quickly filled a bag with roadside dirt and neutralized the spill. Come to think of it, I don't hate google so much anymore.