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- Shishir Kumar And the later part night went discussing that what we just saw was what the Bengali legends call Dakini or this is the entity that is known as Chudail. Still not clear, but we had definitely seen something very disturbing. It was a challenge I had taken up. A tantric in his mid 40s had asked me to accompany him to the funeral ground where he would evoke the spirits and I would be able to see them. The condition was I should not run away. I? Run Away? Are you serious? He had asked me to come by 11 at night. But out of anxiety and pure happiness, I bought a bottle of 100 pipers and rushed to his house exact at 9. As I barged into his hut, he sat on a mat that looked like a cheap replica of tiger skin. That was the only cloth around him. Further, he was covered with beads and rosary. That was what I could see prima facie. His hut had an entry from right, he sat in the middle of opposite wall and visitors could sit leaning the left wall of the house. As my e...

-Shishir Kumar Switching from a bona fide crime reporter to a paranormal researcher indeed needed a jolt to start. Prior, dealing crime scene, visiting post mortem houses and sitting besides depleted dead bodies and writing notes was an everyday affair. No fear and no thought of ghost. The inherit fear and belief on ghost, that I had since childhood, had vanished with time. I could without emotion see the lynched bodies, whose sight would give a normal person sleepless nights for months. I sat as the postmortem went on, sipping tea, peeping inside the corpse to understand what led to the organ failure. In this routine life I too needed a break. An evening I switched off all the phones and caught a bus to my native village. That was how I did it every time, even my office and family was OK with it by then. My village lies very near to the Himalayan range. It had just two families till 50s, who had shifted post Bhoodan movement in that area, later joined by labors and Bangl...