Book review :Ghidra, by Abir Roy

Ghidra is a bengali book, but I can’t help myself, share an English review  of it.

 Budding author Abir Roy’s Ghidra   is about –The Rise of  the Evil.

The book contains three stories and the third one connects the other two carefully and beautifully making reader stick to the book till the end.

Each story takes place in different location.

 Puri

 Ujjain

 Tarapith – (a place in West Bengali where Goddess Kali being worshiped and Tantric sacrifices are done)

The chapters are as – Prayers, Sacrifice and Ghidra

The first story Prayer takes place in Puri where the city is getting ready for Nobokolebor festival. This festival takes place after every 24 yrs. where the Jaganath Deity is changed in utmost secret

With Lakhs of visitors to see the Nobokolebor festival, the atmosphere in the city seemed to be very gloomy and drowsy .The people of Puri seems to be in different world  and no one cared about the upcoming big day. The head priest (mohapatra) in the temple seemed  to worship the deity but in different Mantras which sounded Satanic.The protagonist Kripa Sindhu ,who also came for the holy occasion felt an unknown danger lurking in Puri. The city smelled of dead Human Fleashes.  Will the Nobokolebor festival take place?

The second story  starts in a crematory ground .The place is Ujjain. A priest who use to worship Goddess Kali witness a heinous human sacrifice. An 8 year old child been forcefully killed by few men in front of the God and priest couldnt save the child.  Series of paranormal activity started taking place in that area. With bodies being found near a neem tree, the locals and the police were clueless.

The third story  takes place in Tarapith were pregnant women started giving birth to dead babies, or the babies are dying right after the birth. Also  this incident started taking place in Puri and Ujjain too. Tarapith temple became the crematory ground for newborn.

How the three story weaves in to one giving rise to the evil  is what this story all about.

Will there be an end to it? 

The author gives an extreme detail about the Nobokolebor festival,  How the head  priest  perform the task of changing the diety and henceforth.   This part of the book is  the meaty fact.

The rise of the satan has been well compared with Lucifer.

The book is extremely gripping and you will complete it in one sitting.

The ending was good, but I was so engulfed with the entire plot that I expected more from it. 

Highly researched on various topic like Nobokolebor,  Vanishing Twins, Occult Science

When you loose trust from god, you give birth to Satan, how the universe conspired to give rise to the three headed evil and how it will come to an end is what Ghidra all about.

Rating:4.5/5

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