A Rainy Day at Antpur ,The temple Village
Prologue: I was a very poor student in history, even I scored lowest in history out of all subjects in my 10thexam. So please don’t expect any historical significance in this post.
If you are searching here some informative travel diary for your next weekend travel plan with your wife then she will can sue me in near future. So be careful before proceed.
I am here to tell the tale of my short weekend trip through my lens. Although narrating the flavours of a village in monsoon always a difficult task for someone who is also a poor scorer in language. So Irritations are deeply regretted.
Since a month I was planning to have a photo walk at Antpur as one of my old friend provoked me a lot about it. :-)
Antpur is a small village in Hoogly district at Serampore division. It is a temple village in Howrah-Tarakeshwar railroad. The most famous temple in Antpur is that of Radhagovindo with exquisite terracotta carvings depicting stories from all the 18 puranas.
This 100 feet high temple was constructed by Krishna Ram Mitra, the Diwan of Bardhaman Raj in 1786 (1708 Shakabda).
We went through train to Haripal a small town form where you need to take a bus for Antpur. The train was fully crowded due to the Sunday rush to Tarakeshware temple.
From Haripal Railway station it was a nice 30 minutes ride through a lonely road surrounded by lush green fields.
It was raining on our way. Tried to hunt the clouds through lens.
If you are never ever been in a scattered green field under the dark sky while watching the clouds are touching the far away horizon and the rain coming from there like a white mist, then you have not experienced the beauty of monsoon in Bengal.
When we reached at Antpur the sun came out from clouds and the old heritage temple is looking amazing under the blue sky.
It was a nice terracotta work at the wall of the temple. Though some unknown mystic reason the photography is prohibited inside the temple. So tried to catch it from away.
From temple we walked into the village to the see the old residence Jamidar (Jamidar Bari). It was a amazing walk through the muddy road.
We stopped down occasionally while watching the little green ponds or small woods near the road or lush green bamboo groves.
Although Jamidar has gone long before but still their foot prints are still visible. On the premises of jamindar house there is a old broken Shib temple. The place was quiet even you can hear the singing of cricket at day light.
Returning home we found the rain again. But the train was not so crowded so got a chance to click.
NB: Atish who inspired me & planned our tour... A green thanks to him :-)
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