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About the BookFrom rumours of ghost sightings to frightening stories exchanged at night. accounts of haunted places have long fascinated human beings around the world. Indian stories of horror, ghosts, and hauntings are often unique given the country’s extraordinary diversity of beliefs and superstitions. In Haunted Places of India, Riksundar Banerjee writes about some of the most spooky and terrifying places in the country. These include the abandoned village of Kuldhara, the deadly NH-33, a portal to the unknown in Hahim, the infamous Khooni Nala, and many more-sites where tragic or bloody events have taken place. The stories that emanate from these sites tell of malevolent and vengeful ghosts, terrifying witches, and spirits who terrorize unsuspecting visitors. Are any of these stories true? Can you really expect to run into a malevolent presence in these places? To answer these and other questions about the country’s best-known haunted places, the author studies them in depth in order to unearth the truth about them.Extensively researched and superbly narrated, Haunted Places of India presents an otherworldly, ghostly side of India.About the AuthorRiksundar Banerjee completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Bengali literature from Jadavpur University. He wrote The Book of Indian Ghosts as well as several books in Bengali such as Trainer Adda, Probase Doiber Boshe, Chhaya Sorir (a collection of ghost stories in Bengali), Cholar Pother Khorkuto, and numerous articles in various newspapers and magazines. His PhD thesis focused on the transition of ghosts in literature through time. Banerjee presently works at Burdwan University.Introduction’Hello? Anybody there?’, asked a lone traveler, knocking on the door of an abandoned house. The door was covered in weeds. Nobody had visited this house in a long time. Was there something jamming the door? The house was clearly abandoned, but could there be a spirit waiting behind the door? Ghosts and spirits cannot return to the time they came from, but they often leave an impression on the present. Time does not wait for anyone, however, and in various abandoned houses, historical sites, office buildings, and public spaces such as railway stations, traces of a tragic past can suddenly appear and startle everyone. Remnants of a bloody history can lend an uncanny atmosphere to a place.
