A walk down memory lane for Cochin College, West Kochi’s iconic institution

Cochin College’s 54th foundation day celebrations held

The 54th foundation day celebrations of Cochin College, one of the iconic institutions in West Kochi, was a special occasion for the alumni of the first batch that saw the college get off the ground in July 1967. They got together early this week in a virtual meet to recall the old days and share memories. Students and teachers, who were part of the first pre-degree batch of the college in 1967, came together in a meeting inaugurated by R.V. Kallikar, who had joined the college on its founding year as head of the department of English. He went on to become the principal of the college in 1976. He said on Wednesday that the experiences in the college evoked nostalgic memories. He was the principal of the college for 19 years until he retired in 1995. He recalled that due to heavy rain in the monsoon, first classes could not be held on the premises identified for establishing the college at Koovappadam and classes were held in the Mattanchery Nehru Memorial Town Hall for a year under an initiative by the then Mattancherry municipal chairman M.K. Raghavan.