a lot of beach and watersports activities are also carried out around this time. However, if you want a quieter season to explore this beautiful city without the hustle- bustle of tourists, then July to September would be a good time to visit the city and enjoy the light rain showers too.

Did You Know

Pondicherry was the largest French colony in India.

The city has Tamil, Telugu, French, English and Malayalam as most prevalent languages.

Agriculture constitutes of occupation for 45% of the people in Pondicherry.

Liquor rates in Pondicherry is without taxes which means a bottle of cold beer costs less than a bottle of cold drink.

It is one of the cleanest cities of India.

Commentsoptimistic can-do spirit of John Fox's article "How the Arts Saved Cincinnati" -- "borrowed" from a 2019 issue of CityBeat -- we'd like to join him in 2019 and look back on some of those contributions that guaranteed that our new facilities were part of a diverse, exciting, arts-loving community where creative people could live, work and thrive.

So let's not forget the in-the-trenches contributions of time, labor and vision provided by individual artists and small arts organizations that reminded us that a city needs to sustain people and programs as well as its buildings and stages. Let's not forget those citizen arts advocates who week after week petitioned, badgered and lobbied city council and the county commissioners until permanent arts funding policies removed the arts from the annual