Kancher Mandir - The Mystic Temple

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Those days, after college hours, there used to be only 1 hr free time in the evening before the evening 1/2 hr. prayer. And there were 3 idiots who would find the best ways to spend that 1 hr time. Sometime give a little hand to Styabrata Maharaj or Aravinda Maharaj's request to play volley-ball at the center court. Sometime enjoy a muDi-chat outside the College gate and then sitting next to Ganga, inside the Math and enjoy the evening cool breeze. Or sometime go to Belur Jetty and discuss many scientific theories, more like "Coffee House er Adda". And sometime going above and beyond our capacity, skipping even the evening prayer and getting own self ready for dialogues like "Yaarki peyechho! Pete haat dhukiye, odike 5 ta angul goonneee ber kore nebo". Well we knew, it was an indication like "Hotobhaga! Ghurbi ghor, kintu ektu bhebe bujhe to, tai bole evening prayer tao...".

Anyways, there uses to be a mystic temple (with glass and lights in the evening), people used to call it "Kancher Mandir" on the other side of the Ganga.

 And the SingaDa-dokan next to the Kuthi-Ghat, uuf... we could smell the singaDa's from this side of the river.

One might say, "Really! you could smell from such a long distance?"

We would answer, "Yes, yes!, we had developed sixth sense after taking the very first bite from the very first time, you need to love those singaDa's like God".

- "Oh I see! so you have felt God too".

- "Ah, well you can actually assume so, if you like to".

In the evening time, while walking from Kuthi-Ghat to Kancher Mandir, there used to be evening arati everywhere - Kasor, Ghanta, Ghup-Dhuno and one surprising thing was there used to be almost no mosquito's on those galli's although evening times is the "Game-Time" for them. So why they were not present. Huh Mysterious!

And there were no fogging activity then, I guess.

[If you even take the name of DDT in any of the western countries, they would think like you are going to spoon-feed them KCN, "No no, not full-spoon, for me half-spoon is enough, I'm on diet restriction" ;-)]

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With full belly of singaDa's while returning back, we used to share our fish catching stories:

(The boy is catching smelt fish)

This is how it looks like:

The big question is though how to feed them? Easy - Raising Mosquito Larvae

Well, we used to catch these tiny fishes from Bohal during after monsoon season from flowing water and trust me they are super nutritious (BoDo-ra bolten - jodi BoDo hobe tahole proti thabai machher muDo khao sona!). Seems like the eggs of these fishes are so tough, they could live without water for 9 months until next monsoon season, Incredible! Nature.

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1. Mosquitos cant tolerate smoke from Dhuno.

2. Small Fishes are the single most enemy for Mosquito Larvie.

#cleanupThePonds and #doMotsoChas, otherwise #noChandaForPujo, #ALAP

3. On the aals (field dividers), don't forget to plant Buan Bushes (the Anrgy Woman would provide you the scientific name of Buan after having a field trip to my village). Also in the intersection of the filed dividers (corners) plant some Neem Trees. Neem Trees would not absorb much sunlight as the leaves are tiny and flapping all the time. Neem and Buan leaves are not liked by insects because of their unique smell-property, and they are automatic organic fertilizer too. From a distance the Neem Trees looks more like "The Big-Sur Tree".  Need more? You can install the Solar-LED light insect catchers (every 50mts or so). At night the fields would look Mystic, and in the day-time, birds would have their meals for free. #atleastTakeHybridApproach

{What a surprise!}: I could actually manage to locate a Buan-Bush today, during my field trip at the outskirts of the city.