About the Book: Theres a Ghost in My Room
The first spirit Sanjoy Roy remembers encountering was one that haunted his
ancestral house in Calcutta; he was five then. A few years later, the
otherworldly made its presence felt again in his parents sprawling bungalow in
Lutyens Delhi. Over the decades that followed, he and his family and friends
have come across a variety of apparitions, spectres and phantoms in such diverse
locations as Khajuraho, Goa, the Himalayas, Edinburgh, Jerusalem, Valladolid,
Boulder, Bali and the Maldives. Some were benign or at most mischievous spirits,
but others--lost, disturbed souls--were angrier and had to be placated. For Roy,
his