On way back from Alipurduar on 6 November took a detour on a trail of legends:

In what is left of the historic Baikunthapur forest, in Jalpaiguri, stands Ma Brahmoree Devi Mandir, among the sacred 51 Shakti Peetha, where Sati Ma’s left feet “Vama Pada”, is said to have fallen.

A solid silence surrounds the Temple and its precincts as one approaches it in the twilight through the forest. Ma Kali stands here in her fierce resplendence. It is said that the iconic Devi Chaudhurani, a key nationalist figure during the Sannyasi Revolt, often visited this Temple and worshipped Ma Brahmoree Devi.

Also visited the spot where once stood the original Devi Choudhurani and Bhabani Pathak Kali Mandir, immortalised by Rishi Bankim in his novel Devi Chaudhurani – 1884. Rishi Bankim sever as a Deputy Magistrate in Jalpaiguri around 1882. In undivided Bengal, the area spanned Jalpaiguri in north Bengal and Rangpur, in what is now Bangladesh.

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