| 1 | When Cartier-Bresson arrived in Pondicherry on April 23, in time for darshan on the 24th, he was in the midst of an extraordinary series of events. | |
| 2 | When Cartier-Bresson arrived in Pondicherry in April 1950, Sri Aurobindo had been in retirement for over 20 years, and had repeatedly declined requests to be photographed. |