Assam

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.

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.

flowers · industry

Workers leaving for the day from Sangsua Tea Garden in Assam, India. Assam, the home to origin of Indian Tea, some 165 years ago, is also one of the most famous Tea production spots in the world.

hills · temple

The ruins of Bamuni hills is famous for its artistic beauty. Located near Tezpur, the sculptural ruins of the Bamuni Hills dates back to the 9th and 10th centuries. It is famous for their excellent creative refinement.

music

ceremony

Chef preparing a delicious fish curry at a Bengali wedding in Assam. Fish curry is the dominant kind of protein in Bengali cuisine. Bengalese cannot imagine a meal without fish actually.

wildlife · river

Assam is a northeastern state of India. Its capital is Dispur, located within the municipal area of Guwahati city.

festival · farmland

On the way to Ziro from Guwahati via Nowgaon and Tezpur. The highway passes through the heart of Assam, crossing over the mighty Brahmaputra at Tezpur to the Northern banks.

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.

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.

This moist light forest and grassland is the sort of habitat preferred by the endangered Hispid Hare.

music · temple

Baba singing a song 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.

temple · dance

Baba with long hair 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.

Spider atop a fern frond in Assam's Gibbon Sanctuary. Shot in July 2011. The spider descends its silky web, then disconnects with the fern and the leaf drops away.

river · boats

Boat sails down Brahmaputra River in Tezpur, Assam. Tezpur is a city and the administrative headquarters and municipal board of Sonitpur district in the state of Assam in northeastern India.

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.

monsoon · river

Floods in Assam are characterised by their extremely large magnitude, often frequency and extensive devastation.

wildlife · forest

A cute teddy bear of a loris with its large eyes! See its cute little 'fingers'. Slow Lorises are a group of five species of strepsirrhine primates which make up the genus Nycticebus.

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.

river

A man weaves a mekhela at Sualkuchi, Assam. Mekhala is a traditional Assamese dress worn by women in Assam. Sualkuchi or Soalkuchi is situated in the bank of Mighty River Brahmaputra.

wildlife · forest

Indian rhinoceros grazing on green grass fields of Kaziranga National Park, Assam. The Indian Rhinorceos (Rhinoceros unicornis), also called the greater one-horned Rhinoceros and one-horned Indian Rhinoceros, belongs to the Rhinocerotidae…

dance

Bagurumba is a folk dance of Assam, India performed by the Bodos. It is the usually practiced during Bwisagu, a festival of the Bodos in the Bishuba Sankranti or Mid-April.