This Assam village provides shelter to witch hunt victims
(WorldNews India)

By: Syeda Ambia Zahan GUWAHATI: Khasiapara is a sleepy village on the Assam-Meghalaya border, about 170 km from here. The village is better known as Dainigaon (witch-village in local parlance). Those who get branded as witches and driven out of their homes for practising `witchcraft´, take shelter here. Ask anyone where is Khasiapara and they will shake their heads. But if you say Dainigaon, all fingers will point to this secluded village, which now houses about 12 families-all running away from their homes. Till the 1950s, Khasiapara was a jungle by the Ajagar river. With time, as more people started arriving, it emerged as a shelter. There are 75 people now. For long, Assam has been...