The girl is blessed with a vision and can foretell events that might happen in future. The tantric Satya, a learned man and devotee of Goddess Kamakhya takes the girl under his fold realising her intrinsic unusual faculties. The story is about an eight year old Rhea whose parents are killed in an unfortunate event and the little girl lands at the doorstep of a tantric’s house of worship in a state of trance. I was surprised however to read the blurb. I thought the book would be like some religious handbook describing the guiding principles. When the team of the Tantric Curse contacted me for the review, I was at first sceptical as I hardly knew anything about ‘tantra vidya’. We naturally did not stop for much longer at the spot. My fellow traveller just hinted that it was frequented by ‘tantrics’ and not very safe place to be around. I remember many years ago travelling through Orchha, we stopped at a place opposite a temple complex which was unusually dark for a temple. Book: The Tantric Curse Author: Anupama Garg Genre: Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publicationīlame it on television serials and movies, the word ‘Tantric’ invokes more often an image of a man with evil look in his eyes and unkempt long white hair dressed in red toga performing black magic with bones of dead around him…
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