How to Plan the Perfect Pondicherry Beach Trip? 5 Things the Guidebooks Skip

Pondicherry looks simple on paper: a former French colony on India’s south-east coast, three hours from Chennai, with beaches and good coffee. Book a place near the water, the thinking goes, and the rest sorts itself out. It doesn’t, quite. After years of sending travellers around this stretch of the Coromandel coast, I’ve watched the […]