Pilgrim Shivam

Most of the time when I visit ancient temples, I explore darkness. Rarely, I found radiant glow or heavenly light, like at Khero Pahar. Except that one I always entered into a domain of darkness, whenever I visited old temples and found myself dissolved in those black-holes. The Kalyaneswari Temple of Lepodi is no exception. We decided to visit the temple, as soon as we heard about it. We knew about the Kalyaneswari temple of Mython. We visited the place, searched its history and concluded for the time. But we didn’t know that there are more in the chain. So we set our path towards Lepodi village. It was not too far from my hometown Purulia. We had to move towards the road to Maanbazar. As we had been to the Mython Kalyaneswari Temple, in sub-conscious we expected some resemblance. But when we finally visited, we were like, ‘huh ? ! ! !’. the Shadowy Temple It was really a typical Purulia day for all of us. The Sun was showing no mercy on us and in that mid-monsoon da