Assam

forest

Little Pygmy hogs foraging in the ground as their mother relaxes, in Assam, a state of India's north-eastern region. The Pygmy Hog is the smallest and rarest wild suid in the world.

Mystery creature found in Assam, India. Guess what animal this is!

hills · festival

Ao Naga from the Mokokchung district of Nagaland presents a folklores at the Hornbill Fest. Ao Nagas are found in the north-eastern part of Nagaland, mostly in the central Mokokchung District and also few are found in the adjacent Assam sta…

hills

Mizoram (from mi 'people', zo 'hill', ram 'country', literally "land of the hill people" / Mizo people) is one of the Seven Sister States of the North Eastern India, sharing borders with the states of Tripura, Assam, Manipur and with the ne…

festival · music

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.

music · bazaar

The 2nd edition of the biggest festival to promote North East Travel & Tourism, Sericulture, Art, Fashion, Culture, Literature and Music Basics Concepts & Marketing Pvt. Ltd.

farmland

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.

wildlife · forest

A herd of wild elephants attack and threaten a tea garden in Assam, India. The labourers get terrified and flee, stopping all tea harvesting and management work.

farmland

People gather to see an Indian Rhinoceros grazing in a farming field at a village in Assam. This is a classic case of human-animal conflict.

Traditional process of husking rice grains in Assam, India.

industry · old town

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

industry · old town

Workers weighing freshly harvested tea leaves at Gatoonga 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…

forest · wildlife

See the long strands of sap emerging from this forest fruit being eaten by a Malabar Squirrel in the forests of Assam! Hear the cicadas calling in the forest understorey.

forest · river

Python baby coming out of egg 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.

festival · dance

A huge crowd gathered at the Assam Rifles parade ground right in the heart of Aizwal. Chapchar Kut is one of the oldest festivals of Mizoram and has a great cultural significance.

Group of Golden langur sitting on branch of a tree. The golden langur is an Old World monkey found in a small region of western Assam, India and in the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan.

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.

A man performs stunts using a scythe, as a part of religious rituals in Assam. He runs the bloodied knife over his tongue and even stands atop the sharp blade! Men perform dangerous stunts on a knife - Assam

Men find and collect fish in thigh-high muddy water in Assam during Bihu festival.

dance · ceremony

Viewer manjitrupbikram tells us that "This is the deodhani dance of the koch rajbansis. The Boro shamanistic ritual dance Kerai also has deodhani (doudini in Boro) dances but of different form.

festival

Tribal women of Meghalaya get together for meals at Jonbeel Mela in Assam. Jonbeel Mela is a three-day community fair held the weekend of Magh Bihu at a historic place known as Dayang Belguri at Joonbeel.

lake · bus

A group of tourists parked their buses, buses and Tata Sumo MUV's next to a pond in Assam, India. Assamese women wash utensils and dishes in the dirty water of a pond.

festival

North East Festival 2013 - A two days festival in the capital showcasing the cultural and traditional Heritage of the North East region as well as present a case for the future of the region.