THIS IS INDIA MY DEAR FRIENDS, WHERE HISTORY IS NOT ONLY LYING IN NEGLECT BUT HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A PUBLIC SPOT FOR MAKING FUN AND MERRY.
IN GAIGHATA , 24PGS NORTH IN WEST BENGAL TWO UNEXCAVATED ARCHEOLOGICAL MOUNDS ARE REELING UNDER UTTER NEGLECT THANKS TO LOCAL GOVT, LOCAL PEOPLE’S CONCIOUSNESS AND ASI’S UNWILLINGNESS TO WORK.AS A RESULT ON ONE OF THE MOUNDS A SHIVA TEMPLE LOCALY FAMOUS AS JALESWAR-SHIVA AND THE OTHER IS TURENED INTO A PICNIC SPOT.IF SOMEONE GETS A CLOSER LOOK TO THE MOUNDS HE WILL NOTICE ANCIENT BRICK STRUCTURES BELONGED TO OLD BUDDHIST SETTLEMENTS STARING OUT OF THE MOUNDS. INDOLOGISTS LIKE HARAPRASHAD SHASTRI HAD SAID THAT PLACES LIKE GAIGHATA, HAROA ETC HAD BUDDHIST SETTLEMENTS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. LOCAL PEOPLE TOLD THIS WRITER THAT STILL REMAINS OF OLD UTENSILS, COINS, SCULPTURES ARE FOUND WHENEVER A DIGGING AROUND THE AREA FOR SOME OTHER REASON LIKE CONSTRUCTION OF PONDS TOOK PLACE. SOME OF THE OLD SCULPTURES WHICH ARE KEPT INSIDE A LOCAL SCHOOL RECENTLY GOT STOLEN.THIS WRITER WAS SHOWN A VERY OLD SCULPTURE OF LORD VISHNU ALMOST UNRECOGNISABLE UNDER VERMILLION INSIDE JALESWAR TEMPLE . THIS SCULPTURE WAS FOUNDER UNDER A TREE ON THE MOUND NEAR THE TEMPLE.THE PICTURE PROVEDED HERE IS IDENTICAL IF NOT EXACT TO THE SCULPTURE FOUND IN JALESWAR. THE WRITER STILL REGRETS THE DAY ON WHICH HE VISITED JALESWAR WITHOUT A CAMERA.
