Photo Of The Way – The Arrows Of 4.30 PM

At 4.30 pm every day, a tiny space in the hill station of Shillong in Northeast India becomes alive – with the presence of men who come to test their luck. Welcome to… Read More →

Call of the ancestors – At Sivasagar, Assam.

Every once a while, the open road brings surprises that tend to amaze us and make us remember times lost long ago. And through this road we get a glimpse of life; ever moving… Read More →

Photo Of The Day ~ The Last Resort

The 500 year old Galden Namgey Lhatse Monastery in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, is like a beacon of pure consciousness. Translated in English as “celestial paradise on a clear night”; just being around the… Read More →

Borderlands And Snow – Escaping To Sikkim

For people who live in the sun-baked plains of India, away from the Himalayan Mountains, the snow-clad peaks seem like a distant and unreachable dream. But, with the arrival of winters, many enthusiastic… Read More →

Why Shillong Flips for WWII Jeeps – An article by Janice Pariat

We are glad to present you another article written by Janice Pariat. For those who do not know, Janice is a writer and her work has been published in many reputed magazines. And being… Read More →

Progressive Buddhism

It is hard to pinpoint a major dominant religion of Northeast India. Due to its vast cultural and ethnic diversity, religion here too has a broad spectrum. And within it lies Hinduism, Islam,… Read More →

Romancing The Monsoons : In Shillong

The monsoon was at its rainy best, and I was on my way to a rendezvous with the clouds. But little did I know that this journey will take me to a place… Read More →

Tawang And The Holy Lands Beyond.

If the road to Tawang is proverbially beautiful, the lands beyond Tawang seem majestic and holy; never ceasing to humble a passerby soul. Tawang, a neat hilltop town lying at an altitude of… Read More →

Majuli of love

Being a native of the Indian state of Assam, I have always heard tales about how vast and wide the Brahmaputra River is – like an ocean. But it was after I came to… Read More →

Dibrugarh : River songs from the land of tea.

I cannot imagine myself not writing an article on Dibrugarh. I was born here and since then a never ending love affair has made me surrender a part of my heart to this… Read More →

On the road to Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

The best thing about making a trip to Tawang is the proverbial journey. It starts from the plains of Assam which is at sea level and ends at an altitude of 14000 ft… Read More →