Photo: Mumit M.

The residence of Zamindar Haricharan Roy Chowdhury and his ancestors at Shyamnagar upazila under Satkhira district has seen better days. A Shiva temple, on the premises, from the same period, is still in use. After the Roy Chowdhury family abandoned the estate during Partition (1947), it had been used as a government office in different times. Close shots of the edifice reveal the ravages of time and neglect. The place that could have been a tourist attraction is now a skeleton of past glory.