Chandranath Dhaam

When the Bells Fell Silent and Blood Mingled with Gangajal: The Mahashivratri Massacre of Devotees at the Shakti Peeth of Chandranath Dhaam, Sitakunda (1950)

On the sacred night of Mahashivratri, when chants of “Har Har Mahadev” were meant to echo across the hills of Sitakunda, the bells of Chandranath Temple were drowned not by devotion, but by screams. They arrived barefoot and fasting with brass vessels of milk and sacred Ganga water from Assam, Tripura, Manipur and from every distant corner of Bangladesh …