Dhaak Podcast

Begunkodar railway station in Purulia district of West Bengal came in Indian Railways records as one of its 10 'haunted' railway stations in 1967 after passengers deserted it when the station master reportedly died after seeing a white sari clad woman walking along the railway tracks. The railway station remained shut for 42 years until 2009 when Mamata Banerjee reopened it during her tenure as railways minister. However, nobody stayed back at the station after 5 pm every day. Listen to this mysterious story narrated by your dost and host Tushar Sen : https://instagram.com/tusharsarojsen | www.dhaak.com

Many migratory birds in Assam including tiger bittern, little egret, black bittern, pond heron, Indian pitta and kingfishers are affected by the mysterious phenomenon at Jatinga. Species of birds including black drone, hill partridge, green pigeon, emerald dove, and necklaced laughing thrush amongst others used to come to this place and mysteriously die by suicide in large numbers. Listen to this mysterious story narrated by your dost and host Tushar Sen : https://instagram.com/tusharsarojsen | www.dhaak.com

Nestled deep in the Himalayan mountains at 5029 m above sea level, Roopkund Lake is a small body of water (~40 m in diameter) that is colloquially referred to as Skeleton Lake due to the remains of several hundred ancient humans scattered around its shores. Little is known about the origin of these skeletons, as they have never been subjected to systematic anthropological or archaeological scrutiny. Let us find out about the reality of these 1200 yrs old skeletons, narrated by your dost and host Tushar Sen : https://instagram.com/tusharsarojsen | www.dhaak.com

Nathuram Vinayak Godse was a nationalist and editor of a newspaper who assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on January 30, 1948, when Gandhi Ji visited the then Birla House in New Delhi for a prayer meeting. Godse had fired three bullets at Gandhi’s chest from a close range, ensuring his demise. Godse chose not to escape, was arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Tonight we bring you the real story behind this assassination by Godse, narrated by your dost and host Tushar Sen : https://instagram.com/tusharsarojsen | www.dhaak.com

Sone Bhandar in translation means the store of gold and a legend goes saying that there is treasure hidden in its walls. On the wall of the cave, there is a trace of carving which resembles that of a doorway and next to it is a 'difficult to understand' inscription in the Sankhilpi or Shell script. It is said that this inscription is a password and the person who would read it could open the door and enter the passage. The same inscription has been found in Java and Burma and these too, have never been decoded. Tonight we bring you the story of a team that solved this 2500 years old riddle. Listen to the story now narrated by your host and dost, Tushar Sen : https://instagram.com/tusharsarojsen | https://dhaak.com