It was dusk and darkness had begun to fall. We walked along with our guide along a narrow path from the Belur Math which we had just visited, to the bank of the river Hooghly. Our plan was to take a boat to the Dakshineshwar Kali temple. Dakshineshwar is a locality in the outskirts of Kolkata in the district of North 24 Parganas. I imagined a scenic ride sitting on a...
