Every year, as autumn thins into the first cool evenings of
Kartik, Bengali households prepare for a night that belongs to the unseen.
Bhoot Chaturdashi is a ritual of memory, fear and food, and it arrives just
before Kali Puja. It is part ancestor worship, part folk medicine and part
ghost story, and it asks the living to remember that they are never entirely
alone in their own homes.
A date written in the moon
The festival follows the lunar calendar. It falls on the
fourteenth lunar da...
