The decade of nineties had almost ended. The country was feeling the rapid modern changes. In this period of change, the form of fear was changing. People in villages who once used to be scared of bandits, robbers and ghosts…now they were filled with fear of rumours like ‘Munhnochwa’ and ‘Lakadsunghwa’. People had stopped sleeping on their roofs during the scorching nights of June. There was a complete ban on children going out during the day. Every day, someone or the other would tell us that in a certain village,…
Read MoreMuhnochwa and Lakadsunghwa The fear of the 90s which frightened the people of UP and Bihar for decades
