The Beauty in Tradition - Assam

 "I heard that its a very dangerous place", "There are ULFA troops there, Life is in danger all the time.", "many terrorist attack might take place", with all terrified and horrified faces my friends and relatives told me about how is Assam as a state, most of them didn't even visit. But obviously it was nothing like it, in Assam truly it was the best experience. The people so warm and welcoming, respectful, and the word, fun loving and they enjoy their life to the core. Their life is related to lots of hard work, but still at the end of the day, hard work pays and they enjoy their life to the fullest. They have loads of culture and traditionalism in their life and that didn't bound them from growing with the reality. Festival like Bihu, textile like Assam silk, the respectful Gamosa, tea and rubber plantation and many more to see from Assam.


Assam textile:
As, we lived in colony, and we were in Assam the houses were all Assam type, like with slanting roof tops to prevent rain to clog on the roof top. So, we had a Assamese family living next to our house, the lady of the family after finishing her household work and after lunch, we use to find her making sarees or doing some embroidery. They had a huge machine for making sarees, and most of the Assamese families had this machine, some for their living and others just because they enjoy doing the work.
There is a wide variety of clothing and textile involved in Assamese culture.
Cotton, dhoti, endi, eri, gamosa, jaapi, khadi, mekhla chador, muga silk, pat silk, riha,  suriya, tongali, uroni and these are the various type of varied textile from assam.
Assam silk denotes the three major types of indigenous wild silks produced in Assam—golden Muga, white Pat and warm Eri silk. The Assam silk industry, now centered in Sualkuchi, is a labor intensive industry.Muga silk is the product of the silkworm Antheraea assamensis endemic to Assam.
And the Admiration of the textile or the product that comes out so elegant and beautiful is awesome.

 

Bihu:

Oh! No one in Assam, or who has stayed in Assam would miss this festive of the year. Bihu denotes three different cultural festival  in Assam. Though they owe origins to their ancient rites and practices, they have taken definite urban features and has become popular festival in the urban recently. Bihu festival has most of it, with Bihu dance from and Bihu folk songs. They are the most important festival for the Assamese, it is celebrated with fun and abundance by all the Assamese people irrespective of caste, creed, religion , faith and belief. There are three types of Bihu, Rongali bihu, Kongali bihu and Bhogali Bihu, it is celebrated through the year thrice.The most colourful of all is the rogali bihu, as by name, it is celebrated during the springs, the baishak mag(month). Rich dance form and Bihu folk is amazing to watch, they are entertaining and traditional it is really mesmerizing, all the women and men dressed up in there traditional silk with the Gamocha, the men play and dance with various kind of instruments, and the women dance so gracefully and everyone rejoice the moment.

With all these, Assam has rich culture but they also respected other cultures and rejoiced themselves with us during our cultural festivals. As we celebrated our cultural events they shared and participated with us, every week in the colony club we use to clebrate some event or occasion or have a get together where all the families will come and rejoice their  time. It was all fun time all together, and it use to go on till midnight and on till everyone get exhausted and feel sleepy.

Monsoons of Assam were awesome, Assam is a very cold place and during the monsoon it becomes more cooler. Monsoon's in Assam were very attractive it is the perfect place, to sit in veranda on a chair with a cup of tea in hand, watching the rain so pleasant, in an Assam type houses and just enjoy the beauty of rain, and listen to the sound, the music it plays, lost in the thoughts of good time.

To be Contd....