Where children read lessons sitting in a Graveyard

Patna: Every morning a babble of voices breaks the eerie silence of a graveyard as schoolchildren repeat their lessons under an open sky. This strange sight in a Bihar village is something people have got accustomed to for the past eight years.

The Kasai Tola Prathmik Vidyalaya, a government-run primary school in Madhopada, a lower middle class locality in Purnea town, about 350 km from Patna, has been functioning out of a graveyard and the authorities have so far not bothered to relocate it. Read more.................Where children read lessons sitting in a graveyard

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Eatery Boasts Graveyard Seating

In India, death is a part of life and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch. The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad in Gujarat state of India is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.

It's a spot where old men page through newspapers and argue politics in the morning while young couples share candlelit meals and hold hands at night. That the candles sit atop graves only adds to the ambiance.

Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins, and that's enough for him.

"The graveyard is good luck," Nair said one recent afternoon after the lunch rush. "Our business is better because of the graveyard."

The graves are painted green, stand about shin high, and every day the manager decorates each of them with a single dried flower. They're scattered randomly across the restaurant _ one up front next to the cash register, three in the middle next to a table for two, four along the wall near the kitchen.

The waiters know the floor plan like a bus driver knows his route, and they've mastered the delicate dance of shimmying between graves with a tray of hot tea in each hand.

"We're used to it," said waiter Kayyum Sheikh. "There's nothing odd about it."

The graves probably belong to the family or associates of a 16th-century Sufi saint whose tomb is nearby, according to Varis Alvi, a retired professor in Ahmadabad.

The restaurant dates to the 1950s before honking traffic and tall buildings surrounded the site when K.H. Mohammed opened a tea stall outside the cemetery, said Nair, who helped run the place and became Mohammed's partner. Business was good, and the stall kept expanding until its tin walls encircled the graves. Mohammed died in 1996.

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Study in graveyard for high marks

Patna, Sept 10: Students in Sherghati, a town 50 km from Gaya in Bihar state of India, have chosen a graveyard to study, believing that the spirits there will help them score good marks in their examinations............Read more.....Study in graveyard for high marks

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Boys at Graveyard school get nightmares

Wanna know why school going children in one of the school's in Bihar state of India are having nightmares? Because their school is located in a graveyard & kids are having recurring nightmares about ghosts..........Read more..........Graveyard school pupils get nightmares

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Ghost who likes Cake & Tea

"When darkness descends on the graveyard, a tall shadow emerges out, stalks passersby, stops them and asks for cakes and a cup of tea. Needless to say, the hair-raising encounter makes the people run away as fast as they can. A few of them simply collapsed, adds graveyard caretaker Mahmood Ali. "

Mahmood explains, "Many people saw the ghost emerging out of Tomkinson's grave while others saw it melting down right on the same grave."

The ghost that emerges out of a graveyard in the outskirts of Gaya in Bihar state of India is of one English man "Owen Tomkinson" who was a British soldier who died of cholera at the age of 47 on September 19, 1906 & was buried in the Durbar graveyard at Iqbal Nagar here. Read more.........The ghost who talks cake & tea

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