The World - My Oyster!

Solitary tea sipping for every thirsty soul in Assam.

On a quiet cold dawn in Assam, the interrupting sounds coming off the clicking of a china tea-cup and saucer are the only voices I’d allow to prevail in my time of solitude. And of course there is the distant humming of a flock of birds, soaking in the Assamese 4 am sun. It’s a different universe here. A place where mud smells like intoxicating doses of peace; a place where the sun is so in love with nature that it only caresses the region with calm. Be it the color of the skies or for that matter even the fog that surrounds the almost haunting silences of the mountains - everything around me is an orchestra of peace. I’m reclining on a resting chair made of teak bamboo, a pillow to hold my head, sipping not only the flavor, but also taking in the smell of the bitter Assamese hibiscus tea into the corners of my mind.
This eastern land of India is much often a forgotten land because it is untouched by commercialization. For teenagers, it is a good place to back-pack and trek or venture out on a road trip. Whereas, for photographers, every place poses as a good frame. For writers, Assam is home to rest a mind upon isolated regions where noise will die down, giving birth to the openness of the mind. For foresters, Assam holds a rich animal life and deep jungles where you’d want to be lost, in an experience that denounces every other escapade ever had. For a couple looking for a quiet non commercial place, Assam can be a welcoming of sorts for the ‘revolutionary road’ sense that any relationship would want to build upon. For cinematographers, Assam holds the promise of unique exploration, of unconventional locations, that will color up the screen like never before. In a nutshell to sum it up, Assam quenches the thirst of every soul.
As every day is routinely designed to end into human hibernation, an act we call as sleep, we never have really understood its psychological gravity. It is in fact, the very need for solitude. Solitude, a feeling so close to the soul that its need is rather untouchable because it’s too close to the subconscious mind. And here, as in this state, as the light of this amazing Assam, fills up my soul, only after fulfilling, have I realized that I had this need. If peace was to be personified in nature, I guess this would be it.