Charles Sobhraj

Who Is Charles Sobhraj?

Sampad Patnaik

Farrukh Dhondy’s portrait of an elusive and enigmatic character

The Kiss of the Serpent

Kaveree Bamzai

What makes Sobhraj such an enduring bad boy?

It’s India’s most fabled jail that housed the notorious and the respectable, and where some prisoners were more equal than others and some executions were stranger than what was reported. Startling revelations of a man who witnessed their lives and last moments