Can We Ever Banish the Ghosts From Our Past?

Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure ask an age-old question about the ways in which we deal with the good, bad and ugly from our past. Humans try their utmost best to cope with the burdens of past relationships, traumas and memories using methods like therapy or engaging with alternative healing through psychics, astrologers, tarot cards and sometimes by attempting to connect with those in the afterlife. Writer of ghost stories Jessica Faleiro joins the podcast from Goa and speaks about her childhood encounter with a haunted house that altered the course of her life. Not only does Faleiro write gripping and frightening ghost stories, she also explores national and political hauntings that can help people understand collective, inherited trauma. The three wonder why psychological and scientific explanations seem to come up short and why we often gravitate to less proven, often mocked methods. 

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Extra Salty: Not your bag of chips but two women with their fingers on the pulse. Each week, Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure dive deep into a question that’s been floating around in the zeitgeist. Expert guests weigh in. No topic is off limits. Amrita Ghosh is Assistant Professor of South Asian literature and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts (2023), and co-editor of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning (2022). She is the co-founder of Cerebration, a bi-annual literary and arts journal. Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer, editor and creative director of the Radical Books Collective. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and she recently co-edited the collection Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War for Zubaan Books (2023).