Assam Muga
There are still many posts pending - but I am jumping in to put out the latest just to establish the connection with the previous post where I talked about Kanchi silk going to Kamakhya Devi. It was my second visit to North East, and was thrilled to be going around Guwahati before heading to Arunachal Pradesh for the BNHS camp at Namdapha. Tickets were booked five months in advance even as my friend Anuradha and I struggled to convince our families about the trip perceived "risky". Travelling from west to east we find it difficult to come to terms with the time difference. We thought we had a whole evening ahead to visit a few temples at Guwahati as we landed at 1 pm. But, we barely managed to see Brahmaputra and the Umananda that is in an island hillock. We were told Sunday would be impossible to have darshan at Kamakhya. Monday morning we had darshan at Kamakhya and in between we had managed to visit a rhino sanctuary at Pobitara and a 6th century Hayagriv-Mad...