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  • This week we start journey to try and demystify the many many myths surrounding Koose Munuswamy Veerappan. In this episode we look at his childhood and early days and finish with the Good Friday Massacre?
    Intrigued? Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
    #Veerappan #Veerappanstory #Sandlewoodsmuggler
    Sources :
    Books : 
    1. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand Kindle Edition by K. Vijay Kumar https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B01MYCNW30?ie=UTF8
    2. Veerappan's Prize Catch: Rajkumar Hardcover – 1 January 2003 by C Dinakar https://amzn.to/34ffNnc
    Others :
    1. https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30225518.ece
    2. https://www.deccanherald.com/national/informer-veerappan-op-demands-697210.html
    3. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/veerappan-case-closed-stf-cop-who-chased-bandit-details-hunt-in-memoir/story-efFD3sQeHbpreGqMuXvWnN.html
    4. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Unravelling-an-Enigma/articleshow/892009.cms
    5. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/05/india.kashmir

  • Continuing the story of Gurmeet Ram Rahim from the previous episode, we delve into the infamous letter that brought Gurmeet Ram Rahim down, the journalists that paid the price for their integrity and the women who braved the world to make sure justice was done. 

    SOURCES: 
    1. https://freespeechcollective.in/2018/11/01/ram-chander-chhatrapati-a-17-year-wait-for-justice/ 
    2. https://theprint.in/report/will-purify-two-rape-victims-testified-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh/8095/
     3. https://www.altnews.in/atal-bihari-vajpayee-order-cbi-investigation-case-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh/ 
    4. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/papa-s-angel-honeypreet-s-meteoric-rise-through-ranks-in-dera-sacha-sauda/story-wSYasZuuSj9ax7Nz8i5HzO.html 
    5. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/honeypreet-insan-granted-bail-in-panchkula-violence-case/story-SSVDGlQdHHkUk4UjAwleBP.html 6. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/honeypreet-insan-found-gurmeet-ram-rahim-india-today-interview-honeypreet-1056588-2017-10-03 
    7. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/haryana-police-arrests-honeypreet-insan-1056786-2017-10-03 
    8. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gurmeet-ram-rahim-dera-sacha-sauda-sirsa-trafficking-racket-1048454-2017-09-20 
    9. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gurmeet-ram-rahim-dera-sacha-sauda-sirsa-skeletons-mass-grave-1048480-2017-09-20 
    10. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mass-castration-dera-sacha-sauda-chief-gurmeet-ram-rahim-chargesheeted/articleshow/62748605.cms 
    11. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gurmeet-ram-rahim-rape-baba-cried-begged-for-mercy-court-1032892-2017-08-28
     12. https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-thodi-ji-riyayat-how-gurmeet-ram-rahim-went-from-rapist-brute-to-crying-baby-in-rohtak-court-2541241 
    13. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/after-rape-verdict-ram-rahim-said-hang-me-i-don-t-want-to-live-says-man-who-spent-5-days-with-dera-chief-in-jail/story-GbEZTUZ03vGEEn1DsiingI.html HONEYPREET INSAN’S WEBSITE: https://www.honeypreetinsan.me/ 

    BOOK: Dera Saccha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim: A Decade-Long Investigation by Anurag Tripathi https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/0143442406?ie=UTF8&tag=khoonithepodc-21&camp=3638&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0143442406
    Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • How did a modest and egalitarian sect morph into a sinister force for evil? How did an unremarkable small town boy become the biggest baddest name in Haryana? And why the hell was he called the Baba of Bling? We explore all this in our episode on Dera Sacha Sauda and its enigmatic leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Insan
    SOURCES:
    I.  News articles
    1.  https://www.news18.com/news/india/anatomy-of-a-riot-when-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singhs-premis-turned-violent-1501983.html
    2.  https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/a-farm-to-prison-story-of-the-baba-of-bling/article19562641.ece
    3.  https://www.derasachasauda.org/saint-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh-ji-insan/
    4.  https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/gurmeet-ram-rahim-insan-a-dera-chief-packaged-as-messenger-of-god/story-EI9wwfbV3zV2NxhO9d1NXL.html
    5.  https://www.thequint.com/news/india/gurmeet-ram-rahim-cbi-murder-case-for-27-years
    6.  https://thewire.in/culture/growth-of-deras-and-their-following-over-the-years
    7.  https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh-convicted-murder-dera-saccha-sauda-bjp-haryana-congress-5534181/
    8.  https://www.thequint.com/news/india/castration-of-dera-sacha-sauda-member
    II.  Books: Dera Saccha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim: A Decade-Long Investigation by Anurag Tripathi
    (Amazon link:
    https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/0143442406?ie=UTF8&tag=khoonithepodc-21&camp=3638&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0143442406)
    III.  Youtube videos:
    1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKIcJJOMlLE
    2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q56QnplwDPQ (Dera followers threaten violence over court verdict: India Today)

  • How did a boy who was born in Saigon in the middle of a war become one of the most ingenious Criminals on the Hippie Trail in the 70s? Join us this week as we begin to try and understand the myth and the man that is Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj!
    Sources : 
    Books : 
    1. On the Trail of the Serpent : The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville and Julie Clarke https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B07TSBG7FK?ie=UTF8&tag=khoonithepodc-21&camp=3638&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B07TSBG7FK
    2. Serpentine : The True Story of a Serial Killer’s Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia by Thomas Thompson https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B01N5EQU2D?ie=UTF8&tag=khoonithepodc-21&camp=3638&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=B01N5EQU2D
    3. Charles Sobhraj : Inside the Heart of the Bikini Killer by Ramesh Koirala https://www.amazon.in/Charles-Sobhraj-Inside-Bikini-Killer/dp/9353332621
    4. https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-crime/the-serpent-charles-sobhraj-my-encounter-with-serial-killer
    5. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war
    6. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/pathways-between-child-maltreatment-and-adult-criminal-involvement