BETALI: GUARDIAN OF THE SIXTY-FOUR

BETALI : GUARDIAN OF THE SIXTY-FOUR by SHIVAM THAKUR The cremation ground at midnight is not a place of the dead. It is a waiting room for the hungry. When a skeptical journalist ventures into the heart of rural Odisha to expose a secret cult of Yogini practitioners, he expects to uncover local superstitions and folklore. Instead, he steps into an ancient, terrifying reality where the veil between the material world and the occult is paper-thin. Guided by Tara, a mysterious ascetic whose warnings border on madness, he is thrust into a hidden network of Tantric rituals, shadow entities, and sacred mandalas. But the deeper he digs, the more the darkness pushes back. At the center of it all lies Betali-the ancient guardian of the sixty-four. She is a fierce, primordial energy that protects against negative forces, but her protection comes at an unimaginable psychological cost. As reality fractures and the haunting sound of unseen anklets echoes in the pitch-black night, he must confront a horrifying truth: is his spiritual awakening genuine, or is he spiraling into absolute insanity? In this bone-chilling psychological thriller, the line between protector and predator dissolves. Betali is watching. And she is very, very hungry...