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Harbour, Hurly-Burly, Humanity — Kochi is Poetry in Urban Ink
Melting pot of Culture, Tradition & Art in God’s Own Country
Wellingdon Island: The Harbour
Giotto di Bondone once said ‘Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour’, but my eye’s vision lay frozen at the resplendent harbour painted on the night.
I looked out of my glass window where the land ends and the mind flap- raises its wings like an aircraft wheeling free in the open to slurp up a almost-Gogh-ian frame unmissable.
Water holding the shimmers and dissecting hue-bands the way our tongue holds poetry. Alive in the dark, ready to be erased by light.
Like flashing teeth in haven’s mouth, urban halogens manned the harbour like stars descending on the sea for the night’s celebrations.
A poetry trapped between steel & concrete calligraphy-ed in urban ink — that’s Kochi for you.
Rising from the days of old now a bustling business hub, Kochi(formerly Cochin) lies to the western coast of the southernmost state of Kerala, India.
Monsoon played a huge role in creating the port of Kochi, when in 1345 the flooding of River Periyar led to its natural…
