Assam

wildlife · forest

Elephants grazing in the grassland of Kaziranga National Park, Assam. The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia.

wildlife · village

Leopard stuck in a village's fields and harmed by the villagers. The leopard is one of the five "big cats" in the genus Panthera.

old town · flowers

Tea workers with conical straw works at tea plantation at Heritage North East tea garden in Jorhat, Assam.

dance · music

A man playing flute while women performs Jhumur dance, men beat dhols and manziras...... Assam’s tea workers are known for their hard work. Day after day, they work plucking nascent tea leaves.

old town · industry

Tea leaves pass through the sorting machine at Heritage North East Gatoonga Tea Estate in Assam.

industry · flowers

A Mahindra Scorpio SUV belonging to the assistant manager of the tea garden stands by, as he supervises the picking, packing and cleaning of tea leaf on his garden.

festival · bazaar

For hundreds of years people have been using money as a medium to trade things. Essential commodities as well as precious gems and metals.

Ants seeping through Python eggs. Python wrapped around her clutch of eggs. The eggs readily stick together to form a clump which can be cared for by the female until they hatch.

dance · festival

Hundreds of people gathered at the Assam Rifle ground, Aizwal - Mizoram to celebrate the Chapchar Kut Festival. Chapchar Kut is one of the oldest festivals of Mizoram and has a great cultural significance.

festival · music

Mass 'Ring a ring o roses' performed by children during Chapchar Kut Festival at Assam Rifle parade ground, Mizoram. Chapchar Kut is celebrated by the local people of Mizoram in March every year.

forest

Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. We present this clip not as a sensational vignette but a sad portrayal of the battles that forest department staff often have to face in Assam, India.

river · hills

Kachari is a generic term applied to a number of ethnic groups predominantly in Assam speaking Tibeto-Burman languages or claiming a common ancestry.

monsoon · forest

The floods in Assam have affected 8 lakh people, leaving 14 dead. About 1.5 lakh people have sought shelter in the 150 camps opened by the state government.

birds · wildlife

The Red-vented Bulbul isn't a particularly pugnacious bird but these people make them fight, in Assam, India. This is animal / bird cruelty but fortunately, the Government of India has banned this practice.

railway · highway

The first phase of the much-awaited Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal broad gauge rail project in Manipur is expected to be completed by March 2016 with work on in full swing, railways authorities said.

A State Bank of India (SBI) branch ATM in Assam's Tinsukia district bore the wrath of rodents that left currency notes worth Rs. 12 lakh completely destroyed.

forest · industry

A Hoolock Gibbon flight between tree branches at Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam. India’s biodiversity is home to a varied number of plant and animal species.

festival

Jonbeel Mela is a three-day community fair held the weekend of Magh Bihu at a historic place known as Dayang Belguri at Joonbeel. It is 5 km from Jagiroad in Marigaon district of Assam and 32 km from Guwahati.

festival

Ancient barter system comes alive at Jonbeel Mela in Assam, India. Is that ginger the villagers are trading? Joonbeel Mela is a three-day community fair held the weekend of Magh Bihu at a historic place known as Dayang Belguri at Joonbeel.

forest · river

Heading towards Dibru Saikhowa from Dibrugarh on the Brahmaputra via ferry. It takes around 45mins to cross Brahmaputra river in order to reach the Dibru Saikhowa.

boats · river

Passengers deboard a boat after a ride on Brahmaputra river from Tinsukia to Dibru - Saikhowa in Assam. See young boys click selfies from their phones.

Global warming has changed weather patterns and caused a huge increase in the number of droughts, floods, cyclones and other such destructive weather conditions. Assam is another such case in point.

flowers · monsoon

Women pick tea leaves and then have it weighed and get paid by how much they pick. Women are the primary workers at the plantations. Tea pluckers weigh the leaves they have harvested at the Sangsua Tea Estate plantation in Assam.