Mascarade Festival

Mascarade Festival or Mask Festival is an annual festive celebrated by the people of Pondicherry. It falls during March-April. The dance reflects one more facet of the French intelligence of humor with fantastic mask and fancy costumes. Revelers go round the streets in joyous merriment indulging in a kind of gimmic dance to the accompaniment of beating accordion the trumpets.

Updated on 2nd July, 2005