Ahiron Part 1: Meeting the Ghosts.

       Since August 2010, all my lab mates have been hearing the grand paternal property, located at Ahiron / Ahiran, Murshidabad. The property of the "Das Family", whose one of the heir is my lab-mate Nandana. Due to my fascination towards the world of unknown and the spirits, I have always been in the search to visit places that are eerie and haunted, especially in the winter, whence the ambiance gets rather than you getting through with the ambiance. Nandana had mentioned that their paternal home (which is a palace), has a section that has the haunting. It was a great opportunity to feel the ghastly secnario out of the books and the movies, for real. The plan kept on moving... as if the ghost kept on alluring us, especially me. With the winter in mind, the primary plan was made for a weekend visit in Dec 2010. It moved away to Jan 2011, Feb 2011; but ultimately, in the fag end of winter, Nandana insisted it to be made this March and so was the plan placed. 4-6 march 2011, we went to Ahiron, Murshidabad to visit the Das Villa.

           We boarded the 9:25PM Malda First Passenger from Howrah on 4/3/11 and reached the Jangipur Road Station at 5:15AM. It was 47minutes late. The late was due to a Goods Train, and that was enough to let us miss the morning rise. But with four cameras up and clicking, Mayukh Da, Niladri, Jayanta Da, Nandana and myself welcomed the morning of 5/3/11 from the roof-top of Das Villa, Ahiron.

               Nandana's dad and grand mother also came in to over see the proceedings of the trip. We were over joyed with the Luchi, Aloo Bhaja, Begun Bhaja along with sweets for the breakfast. The trip was up and running.

                  The house was divided into several parts. In fact the nearby houses were also constructed on the land possessed by the Das family. All of them were barren in the second floor, as all the members of this huge family were spread all over the nation as well as in international location. (Felt like "Chader Bari"; the Bengali Movie). The feeling came in more when the family gathers every year for Laxmi Puja in their temple. The entrance of Nandana's portion has two lions guarding from the cement fence bordering the roof.

               The morning was spent well in the Mango Gardes of the Das family. Huge.... infact Mayukh Da ran behind the birds and we ran behind the scenery. Till now there was no indication of anything or any one, about the spirit, except fpr the fact there was a 30 year old desolate plot within the house. May be this was like getting a taste of the eeriness.

But.... (part 2)