Showing posts with label Memorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorials. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Bharathidasan memorial

Bharathidasan, another great Tamil poet lived at no. 95 Perumal Kovil Street. He was inspired by Subramaniya Bharathi and has won various awards for his literally works.
Now his house is a memorial cum research and place of pilgrimage to Tamil litterateurs.

Bharathi memorial

The house ar No.20 Easwaran Kovil Street, where the revolutionary Tamil poet Subramanya Bharathi, who used his pen as a weapon during freedom struggle to expel the Britishers is now a memorial cum research centre. He lived in this house when he found no hide outs in south India except to seek refugee in this French territory. His finest work in Tamil literature is immortal.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The War Memorial

The war memorial was raised by the French is located next to Hotel de Ville. From the year 1935 the officials of French consulate and people’s representative of Pondicherry government pay homage to all those soldiers of French-India who laid down their lives for their country in World War I.