Assam

Kaziranga Golf Resort (earlier known as Burra Sahib Bungalow) is a heritage tea estate bungalow located at Sangsua Tea estate near Jorhat, Assam.

industry · old town

Workers sort tea leaves and bag it at Heritage North East Tea Estate in Assam. Heritage North East is a relatively new Company, conceived and floated by the initiative of the B&A Group of Companies in the year 2000, with the objective of ge…

festival · music

Chapchar kut festival is celebrated in a grand way in, Aizwal - Mizoram. Crowd gathered at the Assam Rifle ground to witness the Festival, local singers and artistes performs during the festival.

music · temple

Old baba singing a regional song. The Kamakhya Temple is a Sati Pith temple situated on the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam, India.

school

Children playing and talking before the class starts, India. Assam is a state in northeastern India. In 2011, the literacy rate of Assam was estimated to be 73.18% (78.81% male and 67.27% female).

wildlife · forest

Otters or Ud bilao as they are known in Hindi, are reducing in number due to habitat loss! See these cute otters swim across a water channel. While the others rush across, one stays on and continues his feed on a fat fish.

The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a critically endangered suid, previously spread across India, Nepal, and Bhutan, but now only found in Assam. The current world population is about 150 individuals or fewer.

monsoon · river

Flood in Assam is characterized by their extremely large magnitude, high frequency and extensive devastation.

farmland · festival

Bull fight is a tradition as old as the tradition of Assamese ‘Magh Bihu’ or ‘Bhogali Bihu’, the most popular post-harvest festival in the state of Assam celebrated in the middle of January.

old town · architecture

The historic Sivadol and the iconic Rang Ghar are two architectural treasures located in Sivasagar.

The Assam Rifles is the oldest paramilitary force of India. The unit can trace its lineage back to a paramilitary police force that was formed under the British in 1835 called Cachar Levy.

monsoon

Heavy monsoon rains in Assam displaces more than a million people from their homes. This regular monsoon flooding in Assam causes great damage to life and property. Wild animals are also displaced in great numbers during these floods.

river

Incessant rains cause flash floods in many areas in Assam. People find no relief as their homes get demolished due to the force of mother nature.

forest · river

Pythons coil tightly around their eggs during incubation at Manas National Park, Assam. The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia.

school · festival

Ziro is situated in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, 167 kms from the capital Itanagar. It can be reached via road from Guwahati or Dibrugarh towns in Assam.

sport

Interiors of Rong Ghor, the famous amphitheater of Ahom Kings in Assam. The rang Ghar (Assamese: rong ghor meaning "House of Entertainment") is a two-storied building which once served as the royal sports-pavilion where Ahom kings and noble…

temple · dance

Devotees singing and dancing in kamakhya temple. In the distance, one hears a conch shell being played. A long line of devotees comes in with the women rolling their tongues to make the noise that that does... June 2011.

forest · wildlife

This wildlife footage from Assam captures a small group of Golden Langurs (Trachypithecus geei) resting quietly on tree branches within a dense forest habitat.

wildlife · forest

Witness the majestic beauty of wild elephants in Assam as a herd, including adorable calves, gracefully walks through the lush green forests.

wildlife · old town

This video showcases the Indian One-Horned Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis) grazing peacefully in the lush green grasslands of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India.

highway · aerial

An aerial view of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The Brahmaputra's tributaries traverse the vast marshland and thick tropical forest and the region is home to the world's largest population of One-horned Rhinoceros.

politics · hills

Gurkha Rifles (or Assam Rifles?) march at India's Republic Day parade, 2016. Marching contingent of Assam Rifles at Rajpath. The Assam Rifles is the oldest paramilitary force of India.

festival

The Assam tableau showcases the local people of Assam engaged in celebration of their important festival in the backdrop of a typical hut in an Assamese village.