French Indian Heritage, Pondicherry

Pondicherry Public Works Department in the old heritage quarter of the city. Some may wonder why people should bother to preserve heritage that is truly not ours. Bother they must because colonial heritage is not just some oppressive white conqueror’s legacy. These are structures created from native resources and by native craftsmen. And preserve they must because each structure is a museum that showcases a culture and science wiped to extinction by contemporaries. A culture and science that was based on simplicity and being in harmony with elements of the earth

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