500 years on, Vasco da Gama hailed in Lisbon, ignored in Kochi | India News – Times of India
KOCHI: At St Francis Church in Fort Kochi, history seems to have been dead, buried and forgotten. There is just a nondescript blue board at the church that reads, “Remembering Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator; he arrived in Cochin …where he died and was first buried”.On Tuesday, it will be 500 years since the man…