QUICK ANSWER The six seasons of Assam are Grishmo (summer), Borxa (monsoon), Xorot (early autumn), Hemonto (late autumn), Xit (winter) and Bosonto (spring). Each season, or Ritu, covers two months of the traditional Assamese calendar, which begins in mid-April with Bohag Bihu. Together, they shape the state’s farming cycle, its three Bihu festivals and the […]
Quick answer The best multicuisine restaurant in Guwahati cooks every cuisine on its menu with equal care, keeps veg and non-veg choices clear, has space for your occasion and sits somewhere easy to reach. In central Guwahati, The Curry Lounge at Vishwaratna Hotel ticks all four and adds a private dining area for up to […]
Quick answer Wedding snacks are the starters, finger foods and welcome bites served before the main meal. A strong wedding snacks menu offers five to seven varieties, balances fried items with grilled and steamed ones, includes clear vegetarian choices, and changes with the season: cool drinks and chaat for summer, live tandoor and hot soups […]
updated September 2026 | By the Vishwaratna Hotel team, Guwahati Kamakhya darshan in brief Maa Kamakhya Temple on Nilachal Hill opens early in the morning, pauses for a break of roughly 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM and usually closes for darshan around 5:30 PM. General queue darshan is free. Special darshan costs ₹501 per person […]
Every September, dietitians, schools and hospitals across India put up the same posters about balanced diets and portion control. But walk into a Kamrup household during any ordinary lunch, and you’ll find most of that advice already sitting on the plate — a bowl of khar, a side of tenga, a fistful of bamboo shoot, […]
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 […]
