Assam

Thengal Mansion is a 70-year-old structure that has till date retained the grandeur of its colonial days.

crafts

A man applies starch on woven Mekhala at Sualkuchi in Assam. Sualkuchi is the textile centre of Assam, with large number of cottage handloom industries for which it is also know as "Manchestar of the East".

forest

Little Pygmy hogs digging the ground desperately in search of food, in India's north-eastern state, Assam. The Pygmy Hog is the smallest and rarest wild suid in the world.

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…

farmland · 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.

festival · highway

Kolia Bhomora Setu is a pre-stressed concrete road bridge over the Brahmaputra River near Tezpur in Assam. It is named after the Ahom General Kolia Bhomora Phukan.

dance · festival

Assamese women perform Deodhani dance form at Ambubachi Mela 201. Deodhani Nritya is a traditional dance of Assam. It is associated with the worship of the snake goddess Manasa. The word “Deodhani” is derived from two words, i.e.

temple · dance

Sadhus chanting during havan at kamakhya temple. The Kamakhya Temple is a Sati Pith temple situated on the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam, India.

farmland

Since its inception, ONGC has been instrumental in transforming the country's limited upstream sector into a large viable playing field, with its activities spread throughout India and significantly in overseas territories.

festival · lake

It’s the month of grand feast in Assam, the end of harvest season that represents the festival of food, known as Bhogali Bihu in Assamese. The celebration of this festival starts with Uruka i.e. the first day of Bhogali Bihu.

forest

Forests of Assam have rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. It has a wide range of forests viz.

wildlife · railway

This young tiger was killed by poachers in Assam, India. Its body esd found forlorn and rotting on the sandy bank of a river-bed, with flies and maggots soon to be festering.

old town

Man plays golf 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 getting into Tourism,…

industry · old town

Don't you just love the colours, the hats and the sound of the leaves being plucked? Women tea workers with conical straw works at tea plantation at Heritage North East tea garden in Jorhat, Assam.

wildlife · forest

The Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned Rhinoceros and one-horned Indian Rhinoceros, belongs to the Rhinocerotidae family.

sport · festival

Inbuan wrestling, a game similar to wrestling was demonstrated during Chapchar Kut festival at Assam Rifle ground, Aizwal - Mizoram. Chapchar Kut is celebrated by the local people of Mizoram in March every year.

temple · monsoon

Monsoon clouds in the mountains of Kamakhya. The monsoons hit Assam in India, June 2011. Time lapse of Kamakhya is an important Tantric mother goddess closely identified with Kali and Maha Tripura Sundari, according to the Tantric texts (Ka…

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.

Pythons are being moved from enclosed room (where they were kept for their conservation and protection) to the forest of Kaziranga National Park, Assam.

lake

An Assamese woman washes utensils and dishes in the dirty water of a pond. Access to clean drinking water for human consumption and washing is critical for health and hygiene in south Asia more than anywhere else in the world.

river · hills

The Brahmaputra (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मपुत्र; Assamese: Brôhmôputrô), also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia.

wildlife · forest

Travelling through the roads of Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India.