Friday, June 04, 2004
Midsummer in Midnapore
I stayed at Midnapore for 17 days , to be precise. The first one week was unbearably hot . Then there were rains at night , rains which lashed the hotel room windows violently , hurling waves after waves of water through the chinks of the window. The town looked so oldworldly and the life so leisurely.
I could go to Bishnupur on a Sunday . Bishnupur had so many 18 th century temples of terra cotta ,constructed in the typical Bengal temple style which incorporated the elements of a rural mud - house with a sloping roof . Only a few ruined temples had the Orissan temple architecture . The Bankura clay horses did not impress me much but the balucheri sarees of Bishnupur , of which i picked up two , did. ¶ 8:40 AM
I stayed at Midnapore for 17 days , to be precise. The first one week was unbearably hot . Then there were rains at night , rains which lashed the hotel room windows violently , hurling waves after waves of water through the chinks of the window. The town looked so oldworldly and the life so leisurely.
I could go to Bishnupur on a Sunday . Bishnupur had so many 18 th century temples of terra cotta ,constructed in the typical Bengal temple style which incorporated the elements of a rural mud - house with a sloping roof . Only a few ruined temples had the Orissan temple architecture . The Bankura clay horses did not impress me much but the balucheri sarees of Bishnupur , of which i picked up two , did. ¶ 8:40 AM
