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.
A National Highway cuts through Tripura's agrarian landscape. Priti Das and Bipasha Debnath document the dust, demolition, and topsy-turvy lives of Jirania's residents caught in years of transformation.
Amidst gathering dust, cement and steel, everyday lives and emotions remain topsy-turvy. A National Highway project cuts through what was once an agrarian landscape near Agartala.
Priti Das (Government College of Art and Craft, Agartala, Tripura), Bipasha Debnath (Government College of Art and Craft, Agartala, Tripura)
Acrylic on variable surface
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
Jirania documents the massive infrastructural transformation ongoing in Northeast India's hinterlands—roadmaking being one crucial aspect. Pockets of semi-urbanity mushroom amid agricultural and forested landscapes, growing through the destruction of vast paddy fields, loss of tree canopies, and demolition of household architecture and small market areas.
Livelihoods and lifestyles remain precarious as road constructions go on for years. Jirania, near Agartala in Tripura, has been at the centre of such transformation.
Priti Das and Bipasha Debnath, residents of the area, take their own experience as the point of departure. They have collected statements and audio recordings from local people, gathered raw materials, and created photographic documentation to expand their visual medium.
What happens to a place—and its people—when progress arrives as dust and steel?
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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