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Man ironing outdoors on a side street in Pondicherry. |
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It is customary to see people ironing outdoors in India. This man is using an old fashioned nineteenth century iron that is filled with glowing coals to supply heat. These are common and
widely used throughout different regions of India. Ironing works by loosening the bonds between the long-chain polymer molecules in the fibres, when the molecules are hot, the fibres are straightened by the weight of the iron and they get their new shape as they cool. Some fabrics, like cotton, require the addition of water to loosen the intermolecular bonds.
Pondicherry is in the South Eastern part of India on the Bay of Bengal South West of Chennai. It consists of four former French coastal settlements whose administration was transfered to India in 1954. Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) is a Union Territory of India. It is a former French colony, consisting of four non-contiguous enclaves, or districts, and named for the largest, Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry). In September 2006, the territory changed its official name from Pondicherry to the Puducherry, which means "New Colony" in the Tamil language. Puducherry have four small unconnected districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, and Yanam on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé on the Arabian Sea. Puducherry and Karaikal are by far the larger ones, and are both enclaves of Tamil Nadu. Yanam and Mahé are enclaves of Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala respectively.  |
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