BURARI DEATHS: WHEN DELUSION SUBLIMATES INTO FAITHS

Yellow, pink, purple, - yards of drapes descended from an iron mesh ceiling of the hallway, like an elaborate stage setting, From every loop dangled a human body, a choreography of puppets on strings. The entire nation was perplexed as a very normal family committed suicide on 1 July, 2018. Times immemorial, values and mores have become critical in organizing social life of family. The Chundawat family was one such family in burari region of Delhi where mores became so central and obsolete that it led to their untimely demise. The Chundawats were quite a typical family who lived in the Sant Nagar,Burari in Delhi. There were three generations living under one roof – grandparents, parents and the children. In a joint family, everyone’s roles are kind of plotted. All 11 members of Chundawat family were educated and highly social functioning members. Moreover, these members were in the prime of their lives and thus such a bizarre incident is highly extraordinary and horrific. Most importantly, neighbours regarded them as normal middle class family and they never suspected something like this in their wildest of dreams. We literally don’t know nothing about our neighbours and when things like this happens, it probably shakes the most hardened of us. The Burari house (Chundawat’s residence) is often called as the “House of Horror” since it unraveled one of the most sensitive cases to the world – “ritual mass suicide”