Guide

How to Read the Site

A quick look at how the site fits together.

The Wiki is where you look things up. A kingdom, a city, a temple, and so on.

Wiki

A lore is a story woven through the wiki.

  • Xuanzang Visits Kamarupa

    Anjali Choudhury

    Around 643 CE a Chinese monk who had walked the width of Asia reached the court of Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa, and left the earliest eyewitness account of Assam.

  • Naraka, King of Pragjyotisha

    Monimoy Bujarbaruah

    Before there was history there was a demon-king, born of the Earth, who nearly won the goddess of the hill with a staircase built in one night, and asked with his dying breath to be remembered in lamps.

Lore

A Loom is any path you follow through the site as you read. One example Loom among many.

  1. A traditional Indian miniature painting of the battle: Krishna and his queen Satyabhama mounted on the eagle Garuda confront the demon-king Narakasura, who rides a war-elephant amid a press of elephants and warriors before his city
    Kingdom

    Kamarupa

    Varman, Mlechchha and Pala dynasties, mentioned in the Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta, visited by Xuanzang.

    Read about the classical kingdom

    Xuanzang Visits Kamarupa

    Anjali Choudhury

    Around 643 CE a Chinese monk who had walked the width of Asia reached the court of Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa, and left the earliest eyewitness account of Assam.

    A lore about an ancient visit to that kingdom

  2. The white dome and sloped red-brick wings of the Guwahati Planetarium under a deep blue sky, lawns and a round mosaic fountain in front
    Place

    Guwahati

    The oldest continuously settled city in the region and today the metropolis of northeastern India.

    Start in its capital, today's metropolis

  3. The Kamakhya temple complex lit at night: a cream-and-gold mandapa with a red-banded base in front, dark stone beehive shikharas of the sanctum and subsidiary shrines rising behind, stone steps descending at left
    Place

    Kamakhya Temple

    One of the oldest and most revered Shakti peethas, perched above Guwahati on the Nilachal hill, drawing pilgrims from across the subcontinent.

    Visit one of the grandest temples of the region

    Naraka, King of Pragjyotisha

    Monimoy Bujarbaruah

    Before there was history there was a demon-king, born of the Earth, who nearly won the goddess of the hill with a staircase built in one night, and asked with his dying breath to be remembered in lamps.

    A lore about the unfinished stair for the goddess

Loom

Once you have read a while, you can also contribute. Lens is where expert voices publish essays of their own, apart from the wiki.

Chinatown Days

Mrinal Kalita, 27/06/2026

For a century a Chinatown thrived in the upper-Assam tea country, until the 1962 war branded its people enemy aliens and scattered them across the world.

Lens
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