It is a beautiful Indo-Dutch Monument on GT Road near Chandannagar. While in Chandannagar I was told about this beautiful Indo-Dutch Susana Anna Maria Monument on GT Road between Chandannagar and Chinsurah in Hooghly District of West Bengal. It is a beautiful monument though the subject of this monument Susana Anna Maria was an interesting character. Ruskin Bond wrote a story about her and it has been made a subject matter of Hindi Film.

 

It is said that this Dutch woman married seven times and each time her husband disappeared. It is also said that historical facts do not support this common belief about her. Whatever the truth, the Memorial is beautiful, in an isolated place on GT Road. The Dutch lady Susannah Anna Maria Verkerk married Pieter Bruyes and later an Englishman Thomas Yeats. Folk lore has it that Susanna Anna Maria had married seven times and each time her husband had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. This is not supported by the historical records. However this lore inspired the short story “Susanna’s Seven Husbands by Ruskin Bonds and later turned into a Hindi film.

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