My City Ratnagiri: on the outskirts

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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Ganga of Rajapur

Ganga is a holy river in Rajapur taluka of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra state of India. Rajapur is a taluka in the Ratnagiri District in the Konkan region of Maharashtra State in India. It was one of the famous market in historical times. The great king Shivaji had visited this historical place. It was a safe port in the konkan area. It is on the banks of Arjuna river. British colony was there. The famous temple of Dhutpapeshwar is also in this city. There is also a river named Ganga in Rajapur. It is called Rajapur Ganga. There are 14 ponds (kundas) which suddenly get filled with the flowing water. The water flows there for three months and goes back suddenly as it comes. This happens after every three years. But as an exception, sometimes this happens in the next following year too. But this is rare. There are hot water's small ponds called zare in local language at Unhale village of Rajapur.

Here is a link of a post on Facebook posted by Yasin Patel Journalist in konkan kinara group about..
Rajapurachi ganga

A news in the local Marathi newspaper Ratnagiri Times about Rajapurchi Ganga

Friday, January 24, 2020

somebody is dead !

Here is a breaking news of possible murder on the outskirts of Ratnagiri. A body was found in the jungle area near Ratnagiri . Here is a link from a local news paper Tarun Bharat Ratnagiri edition , dated 09.04.52019 .

A murder ?

Kartik ekadashi

It was Kartik Ekadashi . Lord Kartikey is elder son of Lord Shiva . Lord Kartikey also known as Shadhanana , receives ladies in his temple today only . No any other day in a year is suitable for ladies to enter into his temple and see him . That is a story told by generations here . There are very few temples of Lord Kartikey in Ratnagiri Districts . I have gone to Kasaba ( Sangameshwar taluka ) and Dandeadam (Ratnagiri taluka ) . Here are some photos of the Dandeadam temple :