Life Imitates Fiction Imitating Life
This probably wasn’t the ideal first article to find online after finishing Song of Kali (a novel about various gruesome acts committed in Calcutta in the name of the Hindu destruction goddess, and about the depravation that extreme poverty will drive people to.)
In one corner is the evidence we had come to find: blood-splattered walls and stained bricks.
It is the place where a little boy’s life was ritually sacrificed.
Those who tortured and killed Akash Singh did so in a depraved belief - that the boy’s death would offer them a better life.
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The woman who abducted Akash lived just a few doors away. She claimed to be suffering from terrible nightmares and visions.
It was then she turned for guidance to a tantric, or holy man. It was under his instruction that she brutally sacrificed the boy - offering his blood and remains to the Hindu goddess of destruction.