Pondicherry is a popular tourist destination in India that used to be a French colonial settlement and is now a Union Territory town bounded by the southeastern Tamil Nadu state. It is the most gorgeous city where some people still speak French, or speak English with French accents! The city has preserved their French legacy in the French Quarter, with wide tree-lined streets, delicious bakeries and boutiques and well preserved colonial villas. There is a seaside promenade runs along the Bay of Bengal with statues all the way along, including a 4m-high Gandhi Memorial.

People come to Pondicherry for the beauty, the peace, the shopping, the culture and history and the ‘French / Indian way of life’. The hotels and restaurants all sell a beautiful mix of France and India and you can get a great bowl of lentils and a fa-bulous Steak Tartar. Breakfast could be an Indian omelette or a chocolate croissant.

The city is filled with colonial buildings, temples, palaces and churches in the old city and then there is the beach and the ocean. You will find coffee shops and yoga studios next door to Ashrams and the The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is one of the most popular, not just in Pondicherry, but in all of India. There are large hotels, small guesthouses, Air B&B and many communal places of peace and harmony for people to live and visit.

The economy of Pondicherry is pretty much dependent on tourism, spirituality, health and wellness. Agriculture is also important with crops such as rice, pulses, coconut, sugarcane and cotton being a big industry.

Pondicherry is slow paced and fabulous for a visitor. It is also a city with a good in-frastructure and well developed. In 2012 Pondicherry was chosen as a Smart City and the Ministry of Power inaugurated the Smart Grid project.

With any smart project comes IT. An Information Technology park is set to open in Pondicherry this year and there are already many software developers and software exporters in the city and on the outskirts of the city. If you are interested in IT, Pondicherry is a good place to be. You can have everything in this city – a whole lot of India, a bit of France, ancient and contemporary and great Wi-Fi! There is a need for IT developers, website developers, people with SEO experience and graphic designers.

If you are not qualified to work in the IT industry, think about getting some qualifica-tions. It is not hard. You can have a look at AcePro Schools and see the wide range of IT courses that are on offer. You can choose your course and then study / learn in your own time and at your own pace. AcePro Schools have excellent tutors and a very strong back up system.

If you are able to develop a website in Drupal, you will find work. If you have Drupal Training in Pondicherry or Angular Js training in Pondicherry you will find excellent work. The more qualifications you have, the better. Get yourself a couple of certificates, or a diploma, add them to your CV, apply for a job in IT and have the most fantastic career doing the thing you love most!

And if you can combine time in Pondicherry with work in the IT Industry, you could have the most fantastic way of life. Namaste and Au Revoir!