Indian horror was once all about sleazy movies from the Ramsay stables. It’s now seeking to scare the audience with better fare.
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A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
Updated: 29 May 2022 9:23 pm
A lady-in-white with the larynx of a Lata Mangeshkar, holding a flickering candle in the wind, wanders around a dilapidated mansion at midnight, singing a haunting melody scary enough to send shivers down the spine of the bravest.
A vengeful girl with her soul trapped in the crypt under a hoary duplex bungalow built by her rapist-killer is waiting impatiently for her tormentor’s unsuspecting descendants to come home a few centuries later to avenge the injustice meted out to her.
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