Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014

As Historians and those who share the history of Fort Cochin with many who visit Fort Cochin everyday, Kochi Muziris Biennale is a pleasant surprise and joy for us. The event has put Kochi back in the lime light as it was when it was termed as "Emporium of the world" by travellers in the early centuries. KMB foundation has made Kochi the art emporium which everyone is talking about and visiting. The first few days so so many artists, writers, scholars and many visitors at the venue and all of them are just happy as we are about the way Kochi has become the platform for the contemplations on history and finding a new language to express it.

Wonderful effort KMB foundation. Congratulations team KMB. We love our Biennale.

World Tourism Day 2014

Kerala remains the most literate state. Our effort to educate everyone in the state started very early. Fort Cochin Heritage Walkers, infront of Santa Cruz High School, which was started in the year 1888 at #FortCochin. 

Our first walk on the world Tourism Day of 2014 was a learning experience for us indeed. We got a lot of helpful tips and advice from our walkers who were very enthusiastic travellers who have explored our country  very well and has travelled abroad and has been part of many heritage walks in different parts of the world. 

We gladly acknowledge their good heart and experience they shared with us happily.

Banana Fry

If we go around South of India, we pretty much see the same variety of food with some variations in the type of rice and oil used. Otherwise a thaali will have rice, sambar, the vegetable curry and fry, the chutnies, pickles, Rasam, the payasam deserts etc. Maybe at the far end of Andhhra Pradesh they have this dry fruit delicacies and other non-vegetarian varieties that came with the Mughals.

At our Fort Cochin, though, generally, the food remain the same with some additions in the spices and its quality there is a definite influence of the European settlement in certain things. But in certain things only as the colonial life was pretty much restricted to their area of settlement in the early years.

Banana Fry is one that transcends the barrier. The nendran variety of Banana, dipped in flour and fried in Coconut oil, with a dash of cinnamon if you like it. One has to eat it to believe it.