"Bhoot", the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean 'disembodied spirit.' Ghost stories carry a special ...

This year, CT dives deep into some real life experiences and the varied ghosts that are rooted in Bengali culture and literature. Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Eerie experience: My father was posted in ...

And so, for this Halloween, here are 6 Bengali supernatural beings your parents warned you about when growing up. These are among the most well-liked ghosts in Bengal and are thought to be the ...

But what makes Bengali ghosts perhaps most like flesh-and-blood humans is their ... Priyadarshini Chatterjee is a food and culture writer, based in Kolkata. She is a Kalpalata Fellow for Food Writings ...

This has eclipsed the wondrous, humane and gentler ghost stories in Bengali literature and culture. This worries Uddalak Mukherjee, who tries to find reasons for this retreat in his article. His ...

On her translation into English of the work of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, who invented the genre of speculative fiction in Bengali literature “Trailokyanath’s ghosts are of two kinds ...