“SHYAMNAGAR” - nice place for a day out trip

As my brought up place I have a keen interest on this place. Actually Shyamnagar is famous for its Kalimandir situated near bank of Ganga; this called Brahmamayee Kali Temple. Except this temple this place has its many glorious stories to remind it always. To tour loving people this city can be a great day out spot to spend. If you like to spare some time here then read this article hope this post may help you to plan a trip here.

About the town:

Shyamnagar is a city 30 km away from Kolkata under North 24 Parganas in West Bengal and under Barrackpore Sub-Divition ruled with 2 Police Stations- Jagaddal PS and Noapara PS, having areas under 2 Municipalities namely Garulia Municipality and Bhatpara Municipality.  This town is an industrial area as there are many factories, mills, offices like Exide Industries Limited, Nicco Corporation Limited - Cable Division, Ramsarup Industries Limited, Annapurna Cotton Mills, Gouri Shankar Jute Mills, Mulajore CESC Power Plant, Hindustan Lever - Dalda Division (Presently changed the name) and many more.

This town has a population over approx 500,000.The factories and mills illustrates in a huge labor force from the adjacent states of Bihar and Orissa, with eastern Uttar Pradesh, regularly figuring an crushing majority of the populace in this area.

History of the Town:

All through the ruling of Kirshna nagar’s king Raja Krishna Chandra, he offered the village named MULAJORE with the designate of ROY GUNAKAR to his courtyard poet Bharat Chandra Roy.

One of the family members of Rabindranath Tagore had place up Mulajor Kalibari at Shyamnagar and it is anonymous to a lot of people. Trip the temple next to Hooghly River which is situated in an awfully eye soothing natural panorama. According to the priests Asit Ghatak the temple was constructed on 31 Baishak in 1219 Bengali year even earlier than Dakhineswar Kali temple was set up by Rani Rasmoni Devi. Six priests are occupied for present puja to goddess. According to Mr. Ghatak, the priest of this temple, no committed book had been written on this temple and increasingly history is loss away but he told that they know that relatives of Rabindranath Tagore made this temple.

It had not been known whether Rabindranath ever triped the temple.

In the past Rabindranath Tagore’s predecessor Khitish Kusari came from Jessore in Bangladesh to West Bengal and his next generation was Bhattanaryan and later on Dinanath Kusari. Dinanath’s son Panchanan acquired the name thakur since then his relatives accustomed to write the title Thakur in its place of Kusari. Jairam Thakur (Kusari) was concluding generation had four sons - Anandiram, Nilmoni, Darpanarayan and Gobindaram.  Gopimohan Thakur, the son of Darpanarayan founded the temple. Gopimohan had two sons Prsanna Kumar and Harakumar and daughter Brahmamoyee.

 According to neighboring story that the current consign of the Kali temple was engaged of ‘Nandi’ (caste) and ‘Pirali’ thus practiced priest from ‘Bhatpara toll (Sanskrit learning society) ’ at ease with reject present puja to the goddess Mulajore Shyamnagar Kali consequently priests were conveyed from Bankura, Burdwan and other spaces. Afterward a Sanskrit College was placed up by the king Gopimohan Thakur as a substance of arrogance and to build learned Sanskrit students. Students were lodged in this college boarding house they accustomed to get Prasad in the temple as a lunch and dinner. Ramkumar Chattopadhya, senior brother of Ramakrishna Dev was the student of this college. But that building was decrepit and Rabindra Bhawan was situating up by municipality replace the college.

Notable Persons:

The place is affluent in ethnicity and sports particularly football. It is pompous of its exemplars, Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Subrata Bhattacharya, and ex-olympian Kesto Pal, Mahabir Prasad, Asoklal Banerjee, Prasanta Mitra, Sumit Mukherjee and all that. Famous Bengali writer Troilakyonath Mukhopadhyaya had his origin from Shyamnagar.

Events:

Pous Mela, Rath Mela, Book Fair, Science Fair, Puspa Prodorsoni, Shyamnagar Utsab,

·        Shyamnagar is the famous for Durga Puja and Kali Puja. Visharjan (Immersion) of Maa Durga on Dusserha is also famous. It attracts many people to enjoy the Visharjan. Ganga is an eminent point at the time of Visharjan.

·        Jagatdhatri Puja is also a notable event here.

Spots to See:

Brahmamayee Kali Mandir, Radha-Govinda Mandir, Krishnabhamini Mandir, Ramkrishna Smaran Tirtha, Sidheswari Kali Temple, Ratneswar Samsan Ghat, Nanababa Snan-Bisarjan Ghat, Rabindra Bhawan, Kuheli Lake, Jgannath Temple, Abatipur-Ranga Thakur Ashram, Athpur Hanuman n 10 shiv temple.

Eating out:

Well-known delightful items comprise - Dhakai porota, Fuchka of Kalibari, Babua-r Paratha and Mutton curry, red chilli powder painted boiled eggs in the Paratha shops just beside Platform No. 1 at Shyamnagar Station and most particularly cheap plates consisting of five pork pieces available in the evening at Shyamnagar Auto Stand.