Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti Biography

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti is a Wiccan priestess based in India. She is of Bengali origin. She is also an artist, writer and activist, and High Priestess of Wicca. As an author, she released her autobiography Beloved Witch in 2003. Sacred Evil: Encounters With the Unknown was released in 2006, based on nine case studies during her life as a Wiccan healer, and she received praises for her work. The same year the book was adapted to big screen for an Indian English movie, titled Sacred Evil – A True Story. Sarika played the lead role of Ipsita in this movie. She also had a brief stint in politics, and has campaigned for Indian National Congress in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She conducted research works on The Konark Project, Parapaar and The Living Doll, guiding to many conclusions.

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti was born on 3 November 1950 in Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born into an elite and influential family of West Bengal. Her father was a diplomat and her mother belonged to a royal family. Chakraverti spent her early years in Canada and the US, where her father worked. Her father was India's representative to the Council of the ICAO of the UN, when she was very young. Later she got selected to join the group of women who were studying ancient cultures of the world and the old ways, and the group included lawyers, doctors, film celebrities, politicians, diplomats etc. She along with a few others learnt the ways of the ancients and the forgotten crafts.

Chakraverti studied with them for three years and finally chose Wicca as her religion. She studied Wicca, in a chalet atop the Laurentian Mountains. Back in India, she married Jayanta Roy and a daughter was born to them. Chakraverti declared herself as a witch in 1986, and also told media Neo Pagan ways of Wicca and its healing power. Later she used Wiccan ways of healing to the people of India. She also travelled to remote villages and taught many people, who were accused of black magic and tortured by the society. As a Wiccan healer, she has worked and solved many cases, and conducted many research works too. She claims that Konark Sun Temple in Orissa has curative powers and that she has cracked the mystic code behind it.

Published: September 29, 2018

Updated: September 29, 2018