There are very few ingredients that turn up in a temple offering, a wedding ritual, a summer drink, a festival sweet and a bathroom shelf — and are still taken almost entirely for granted. The coconut manages all of it. In Assam it is narikol, grated into laru at Bihu, folded into pitha, cracked open […]
Winter is the season India travels. Between late October and February, the monsoon has cleared out, the northern plains cool down, the Himalayas turn white, wildlife parks reopen their gates and the coastline settles into weeks of steady blue-sky weather. It is the one window in the year when almost every part of the country […]
Perched on Nilachal Hill overlooking the Brahmaputra River, Kamakhya Temple is one of the oldest and most revered seats of goddess worship in India. For anyone researching the history of Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati, the story is really three stories layered on top of each other: an ancient myth about the goddess Sati, a documented history […]
North East India is not one destination. It is eight states, several thousand kilometres of road, at least four distinct climate zones and a hospitality landscape that ranges from international-standard business hotels to a bamboo room above a family kitchen in a village with no mobile signal. Searching for a single “best hotel” across all […]
Guwahati weddings have grown bigger, longer and far more designed than they were a decade ago. What used to be a single reception evening is now a two- or three-day sequence — mehendi, sangeet, the wedding itself, then a reception with a guest list that stretches across families, colleagues and out-of-town relatives. And almost every […]
Few temples anywhere in India enjoy a setting quite like this one. Rising from a rocky, forested islet in the middle of one of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Umananda Island Temple has watched Guwahati grow around it for more than three centuries. For pilgrims, it is one of the most sacred Shiva shrines of […]
You do not have to be in Guwahati to taste Assam. The beauty of Assamese food recipes is how forgiving they are: no long spice lists, no hours of simmering, no hard-to-master techniques. This is home cooking in the truest sense — light, fresh, and built on ingredients allowed to speak for themselves. Below are […]
A great drink does not need alcohol to feel like an occasion. Top 10 Mocktails to Try in 2026— the alcohol-free cousins of cocktails — deliver the same aroma, colour and balance of sweet, sour and fizz, minus the buzz. In 2026 they are no longer an afterthought on the menu; they are the main […]
If you are searching for 3 star hotels in Guwahati Paltan Bazar, you are almost certainly looking for one thing above all else: a comfortable, well-run hotel that sits close to the action. Paltan Bazar is the beating heart of Guwahati — home to the city’s main railway station, a dense network of markets, banks, […]
Ambubachi 2026 falls from 22 to 26 June 2026 at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam. The sanctum closes on the night of 22 June and stays shut for three days (23–25 June) to mark the goddess’s annual cycle, then reopens on the morning of 26 June for darshan. Often called the “Mahakumbh of the […]
