The third part of this series explains why. In fact, I don’t recall reading the outcome at all. The faces of the family members faded from memory. The term “shared psychosis” made its way into reports. However, I also remember slowly losing interest in the Burari case as the weeks passed. These first two parts are solid if not spectacular, and suggest a sense of occasion – something that was sorely missing from the overplayed scenery of A Big Little Murder. But an animal activist describing the rescue of the 12th and only surviving member – the family dog – is a nice touch. The talking heads are chosen wisely, except for a clinical hypnotherapist, whose early presence dilutes the suspense and indicates a case of psychological element. The opening episode of House of Secrets does a decent job of establishing a moment from every possible angle archival footage is intercut with interviews of shocked officers, forensic experts, reporters and neighbours. A young man and his sister, who worked for the previous tenants, had hung themselves in the living room their mother and her partner were found hanging in another apartment not too far away. I was particularly invested, because the apartment I had moved into had been the venue of half a family suicide. As inherent voyeurs, we tend to paint a mental picture of such scenes. ![]() Back in July 2018, I remember reading the term “mass suicide” in every newspaper reporting the deaths of 11 family members in a middle-class North Delhi locality. Our relationship with the Burari case is closely linked to the truth of the tragedy. The series counts on the fact that most viewers are well-versed with the sensationalism of this incident. The first part traces the details of a doomed Delhi morning the second reveals the strange results of the investigation the third does a postmortem of a society that’s averse to the complexities of human nature.
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