"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 ...
He is the Ruskin Bond of Bengali literature and has written more than 100 stories and books for children, most of them on ghosts. But acclaimed writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay says in real life, ghosts ...
Sahana is ready to narrate the tale of Chuni and Panna. ‘Bhoot’ (ghost) has always been one of the favourite subjects in Bengali literature and film. From ‘Mamdo Bhoot’ to ‘Brombhodoitya’, Bengali ...
History, especially of the 19th century, rivals rashogolla and ilish maach for the affections of the average Bengali. But even as they devour the heroic narratives of the progress of reason heralded ...
A Brahmadaitya saves a poor Brahmin man from a group of bhoot. The illustration by Warwick Goble is from the 1912 edition of Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Dey. | William Goble/Wikimedia Commons ...
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