She is a witch, an icon and a meme: I’m talking about Shakchunni, the slightly hunched and unusually tall green witch who we found scary as children and funny as adults. But as I watched Thakurmar ...

Arnab Ray's new psychological thriller, 'The Bucket', explores the dark complexities of time, trauma, and memory. Revolving around four friends, it unravels their intertwined destinies as a true-crime ...

“I am really tired, Maa. I cannot do this anymore,” whispered the newlywed wife, her hair unbound and feet heavy with exhaustion, her voice cracking under the weight of unshed tears. “I feel like I’m ...

Growing up, I always heard of Shakchunni as a horror story. She was the eerie figure hiding in the shadows, a warning whispered by elders to scare children into obedience. A consequence of ...

Call it prejudice, but when I started reading Shakchunni by Arnab Ray, I had very little hope. Not because Ray might not be a good writer – in fact, I had no such assumptions – but because despite the ...

Bhoot Chaturdashi, observed a day before Kali Puja, is a night deeply rooted in Bengali folklore and superstition. It is believed that spirits walk the Earth as families light 14 lamps to ward off ...