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.
Water hyacinth—invasive, resilient weed—becomes the material for Likitha R Jain's sculptures exploring material ecology and post-humanist thinking.
An invasive weed that chokes waterways became the unexpected material for transformation. Likitha R Jain sees in water hyacinth not a problem, but a possibility.
Likitha R Jain (The Bengaluru School of Visual Arts, Bengaluru)
Water hyacinth fibers, paper mache on wall, mix media
Vallabhdas Kanji Limited (VKL) Warehouse, Mattancherry, Fort Kochi, Kerala
Landmark: Opposite Canara Bank, Near Mattancherry Government Hospital
10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday)
Till March 31st, 2026
Known Bodies, Unknown Futures emerges from a practice rooted in slow, layered making. Likitha works with fragments—torn newspaper images, found objects, discarded materials—as starting points for rearrangement and reimagining.
A major shift occurred when she began working with water hyacinth: invasive, fibrous, resilient. The weed aligned perfectly with her experiments in paper pulp. Now, forms emerge through improvisation and gentle movement, reflecting interests in material ecology and post-humanist thinking.
Sculpture becomes a site of responsiveness and transformation—much like the weed itself.
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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