Fort Kochi is one of the three main urban components that constitute the city of Kochi. It was a fishing village in the Kingdom of Kochi in the pre-colonial Kerala and the territory that would be later known as Fort Kochi was granted to the Portuguese in 1503 by the Rajah of Kochi, after the [...]
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In an age of e-mail and Facebook, I hadn’t stepped into a post office in years, but here I was at a PO in a small town buying a postcard. This one’s for me, so I write my own address on it and hand it back to the clerk. She smiles and stamps it—with a [...]
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