Pondicherry

British  

/ ˌpɒndɪˈtʃɛrɪ /

noun

1. the former official name (until 2006) for Puducherry

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Example Sentences

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC

The staging transitions in dreamlike fashion from the hospital to Pondicherry, India, where Pi grew up in a happy, hectic ferment of adolescence.

From Los Angeles Times

Among its passengers were Pi and his family, who had set out from Pondicherry, India.

From New York Times

Around this time, he stepped away from directing an adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel “Life of Pi,” because he felt too protective of a story about a boy from his own birthplace of Pondicherry, India, to subject the tale to the scrutiny of being an M. Night Shyamalan picture.

From New York Times

A study published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases in June this year describes a survey of 778 students staying in a hostel in Southern India’s Pondicherry.

From Slate