This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
The Anchal Post Runners ran with postal bags balanced on their heads and carried a two-foot staff with bells attached. When people heard the bells coming down the road, they made way.
Driftwood and palm leaf figures at windows, facing the sea—Raj Mahanand explores how identity is never fixed, always shifting between crowds, expectations, and desires.
Through fragile materials and human forms, the project highlights how identity is never fixed—it is always shifting, always transforming.
Raj Mahanand (Indira Kala Sangeet Vishvidhyalya, Chhattisgarh)
Drift woods, palm leaves and found objects
BMS Warehouse, Opposite Holy Cross Church Mattancherry (Kuriachante Nada)
Opposite Holy Cross Church Mattancherry (Kuriachante Nada
10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday)
Till March 31st, 2026
Follow The Crowd explores identity, impermanence, and the repeating loops of society. Raj Mahanand creates many human figures from driftwood and palm leaves, showing the fragility of life in constant change.
Some figures stand at a window and reflect. The rods represent boundaries and restrictions created by society—limits that stop people from fully understanding themselves. The sea represents freedom, yet even there, true happiness is uncertain. Even when people step away from society, the search for identity continues.
Together, the figures express the struggle of moving between crowds, expectations, and personal desires. The chaos of daily life. The constant effort to understand who we really are.
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps.
This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
Iced coffee in a former godown on a 600-year-old spice street. Coz Layover Cafe, Mattancherry in Fort Kochi
Rainforests, incense sculptures, insect paintings - all read through a 2,000-year-old Tamil system of landscape and emotion.
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