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Assam
Trains below, cars above. Bogibeel carries a double broad-gauge railway on its lower deck and a three-lane highway on the upper, running 4.94 km across the…
The stone temple on top of this hill was either never finished or was broken apart, most likely in the Assam earthquake of 1897, and the ruins do not settle…
You cross this one rather than visit it. Bhupen Hazarika Setu runs 9.15 km over the Lohit, a major tributary of the Brahmaputra, joining the villages of Dhola…
What is left is earthwork, not architecture: two earthen ramparts with lakes and ditches between them, running about three kilometres from the Fatasil hills…
Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
Kaziranga covers over 430 square kilometres of alluvial floodplain along the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam.
Majuli is a river island in the Brahmaputra that is smaller every year, and going there is partly about seeing something that is going.
Burial, not cremation, was the Ahom rite, and after the kings adopted Hinduism they went on burying the ashes under mounds.
Sivasagar, once the capital of the mighty Ahom kingdom that ruled Assam for six centuries, is a town rich in monuments around its great tank.
Hundreds of Shiva lingas lie scattered across roughly a kilometre of hillside here, some the size of a fist and some far larger, along with votive stupas and…
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