The Koonan Kurishu Old Syrian Church stands as a silent sentinel of defiance—its leaning cross a frozen moment in India’s first anti-colonial protest. Sunlight spills across its whitewashed walls, where Syriac inscriptions whisper forgotten oaths, and oil lamps flicker like undying resolve. Here, in 1653, faith and freedom clasped hands—and the cross still bends, as if remembering the weight of twenty thousand unyielding hearts.
