“You may call me Elokeshi”, said the woman with the black tresses and the mysterious smiling eyes. “Yes, we have met, in a way. During the festival of Maha Shivaratri last year, I had seen you accompanying Boudi when she had gone to offer milk to the Shiva linga. You held her when she climbed up”.
Dipen remembered the festival though could not recall seeing Elokeshi.
The Rakta Kamaleshwar and Krishna Chandreswar Shiva temples had been built by Raja JayaNarayan Ghoshal, nephew of Gokul Ghoshal, almost a hundred and fifty years earlier. The twin temples housed the world’s two largest Shiva Linga because of which the estate came to be known as Bhukailash, in deference to Lord Shiva’s heavenly abode Kailash.
Rakta Kamaleshwar and Krishna Chandreswar feature in the story Pandemic, a part of my forthcoming book, ‘The Chronicler of the Hooghly and other stories ’. Should you wish to receive exclusive previews and the chance of winning a free copy of the book, do write to me @ author.esgee@gmail.com
A New Beginning 
Well written. Waiting for the book to be published.
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Thank you Shamkar. I do hope the Chronicler lives up to your expectations.
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How much beauty and color. !
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Indeed so. The world around us does hold so much of beauty and colour; it only needs us to have an attitude of appreciation of what the good Lord has provided for us.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
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Well written. Waiting for the book to be published.
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