It was evening by the time a rather exhausted traveller, flying in from Kolkata via a languid stopover in Chennai, stormed the Eighth Bastion. So he was relieved when he encountered a dim-lit ...

KOCHI: Bastion Bungalow was built by the Dutch in 1667 — five years after they captured Fort Immanuel from the Portuguese. It represents a crucial landmark with regard to Kochi’s colonial and maritime ...

With Bastion Bungalow all set to become a museum of archaeological relics, Fort Kochi can add one more to its list of places to visit. This was decided at a meeting convened here recently following ...

At 7 am on a summer day, Dutch cultural anthropologist Dr Bauke Van Der Pol steps out of Fort Kochi’s Brunton Boatyard hotel, armed with a 17th century map, and accompanied by a group of visitors.

The ancient Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi, the oldest European cemetery in India, is a tell-tale reminder of Dutch lives lost in their quest for trade and expansion. Every tombstone has a story of a ...