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Assam
Much of the reason to come is the walk up, past hills, streams and bamboo groves along the road, with a Ganesha temple halfway.
One carved doorframe is the reason to come. A 1924 excavation at this village just west of Tezpur turned up a sixth-century stone door frame covered in…
Hajo is an ancient pilgrimage town near Guwahati in Assam, revered across three faiths.
The lamps in the sanctum are never allowed to go out; oil feeds into the big earthen bowls through a tube run from a tin, a plain arrangement holding up an…
Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
A few metres separate the linga from the base it once stood on, and the story goes that an earthquake tore it loose and dropped it where it now lies.
A hillock at the northern edge of Tezpur carries this Shiva temple, and the building you will see is concrete: the old stone one, credited to king Bana, went…
Go in knowing what happens here. Lower Assam's biggest Shakta shrine after Kamakhya keeps a four-century tradition of animal sacrifice, and at Durga Puja…
Three temples and a museum stand along one edge of the Borpukhuri tank in the middle of Sivasagar, and the Sivadol is the one that dominates: 104 feet tall…
There is no idol in the sanctum. What devotees come for is a small pit filled with water, which is taken to be the goddess herself, and it catches most…
