Ghost stories from India

The Last Cart of Jowar

It was the summer of 1953, and the earth had cracked like old leather. In the village of Malkhed, where my grandfather, Devraj, lived, the wells had sunk to mud,...

The Girl with the Brass Locket

The monsoon had carved a new channel through the red earth, and the air in my aunt’s compound smelled of wet clay and frangipani. I’d flown in from California, my...

The Ashen Garden

It had been four years since I last set foot in the coastal town of Merrin, a place where the sea breeze carried salt and sorrow in equal measure. I...

The Lantern at Fernhill Junction

In the autumn of 1987, I took a job as a junior clerk at the National Bank of Meridian, and was posted to the Fernhill branch, a sleepy outpost in...

The Lantern and the Lease

The warehouse at 14 Meridian Lane had always been a peculiarity. In a district of crumbling tenements and shuttered shops, it stood like a stubborn tooth in a rotten smile,...

The Mirror on the Bluff

The house my great-aunt Mira left to my mother was a relic of a forgotten age, perched on a wind-scoured bluff above the harbor town of Greyhaven. It had three...

The Granary of Unquiet Dust

Every October, I make the long drive north from Panaji to the old family estate near the Western Ghats. The road twists through forests that smell of rain and wet...

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