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**THE HOUSE THAT REMEMBERED RATRI**### 1The first thing Inspector Arjun Sen noticed about the zamindar house was that it *breathed*.Not metaphorically—literally.The air inside the mansion moved like lungs expanding and contracting, carrying the smell of damp earth, old incense, and something faintly metallic. Blood, perhaps. Or memory.Locals called it **Banerjee Bari**, but no one had lived there since **Ratri Banerjee died twenty years ago**.Official records called it a suicide.Arjun had never believed in official records.The house stood on the edge of the village like a fossilized animal—wide verandas sagging, pillars cracked, windows staring blindly into the fields. The zamindar lineage