Pondicherry

/ ˌpɒndɪˈtʃɛrɪ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

Through that last scene in the zoo in Pondicherry, where the goat gets brought on and shoved in the tiger cage, the puppeteer’s doing a dutiful job of keeping the body and the head attached.

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

The most common reason why women in the study were holding their pee was the fear of acquiring infection from public toilets that are not clean, says Sharmili Jagtap, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of microbiology at Pondicherry University in India.

From Slate