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New Guwahati's WDM3A 16006 (left) & shed mate WDG3A 13008 (right) welcomed me at Guwahati on 03.10.2011 for my Jorhat Railfanning Trip.
The Indian government's Citizenship (amendment) Bill - CAB - lead to protests in NE India. As a consequence of the barricades and curfews in various parts of Assam, my travels in the area were impacted. At one point we were advised to take shelter at a police station and wait for a police escort to accompany us to our destination, Jorhat centre. The main access roads had barricades, like this one, where tyres had been set alight to stop traffic.
India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
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Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
Majuli or Majoli (Assamese: মাজুলি) is a fluvial island in the Brahmaputra river, in the Indian state of Assam. Majuli is the largest riverine island in the world and the largest freshwater island in South Asia.
Assam heeft een wereldfaam veroverd voor de beste thee. Sinds 1823 werd reeds genoteerd dat de theeplant op een natuurlijke wijze groeide in 'the upper Brahmaputra valley'. Inmiddels groeide de theeplant over bijna geheel Assam. Ongeveer 51% van de lokale theeproductie in India komt van de deelstaat Assam. in 1911 werd voor de thee kwaliteit een onderzoekscentrum gebouwd in Jorhat/Assam.
Treehouses and jungle lodges in Bheemeshwari, Karnataka- the beautiful Bheemeshwari jungle lodge is almost 2 hours away from Bangalore, hidden from hectic and busy city life. This idyllic spot has the river Kaveri on one side and the jungle on the other. A part of the Government of Karnataka’s venture to increase tourism, the Bheemeshwari Jungle Lodge is less known than the more popular Kabini. More peaceful than adventurous, a vacation in Bheemeshwari can include boat rides down the Kaveri, a jungle safari usually just with deer or fox sightings, mild adventure sports like zip-lining or just lazing around by the river. There is no mobile phone network service here, making this really a perfect vacation to switch off and be one with nature.
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Ratlam's micro-processor controlled WDM3A 16555R with roof-mounted DBR leading 12067 Guwahati Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express. It was a surprising off-link.........
Photographed near Tetelia, Assam.
WDM3A 18825 of Itarsi in its new livery ready to haul 12067 Guwahati - Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express from Guwahati.
Towards its North lie the North Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts, Sivasagar and Jorhat lie towards its east, Golaghat is to the south of Majuli while Nagaon and Sonitpur districts lie towards its west.
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WDM3D 11282 of Samastipur leading 12067 Guwahati - Jorhat Town Jan Shatabdi Express, captured at Tetelia, Assam.
EU Aid Volunteer Sarah Matthews, supported by VSO with EU funds, and the local project team take a boat to reach their destination in one of the flood-affected villages in the Jorhat district of Assam in India.
Photo credit: VSO/Anubhav Das
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Another name for a chillum is a hash pipe or pure pipe. Chillums were mainly used in India by Sacred Sadhu men. This chillum was made of beautiful black ceramic clay.
This Chillum was most likely made in India. Inside there is a small marble shaped black ceramic blocker which stops whatever is being smoked from being drawn into the smoker’s mouth. It easily rolls out for cleaning but I have never used this item for anything other than for a curious display piece. I have never seen another piece but guess that they are readily available in the Middle East.
Chillum (pipe)
Traditional earthen chillum displayed for sale at Chawk Bazaar Jorhat, Assam. No photo.
Darrel Mortimer holding 8 feet (2.4 m) tattooed bamboo chillum. No photo.
A chillum, or chilam, is a straight conical pipe with end-to-end channel, traditionally made of clay and used since at least the eighteenth century[1] [2] in India. It was invented in India.[citation needed] The culture of chillum-smoking has spread from India to the rest of the world since the mid-1960s.[dubious – discuss]
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Chillum stone
When smoking a chillum a chillum stone is often inserted in the pipe to keep from directly inhaling debris much like a screen or filter is used in other pipes. They are generally tight fitting, conical with a flat top and usually have a small hole drilled down through the centre and slits down the sides to allow smoke to pass freely. Before they were commercially available people would search for the right sized pebble off the ground to fit their pipes. Some still do.
According to Alfred Dunhill, Africans have long employed chillum-style pipes for smoking cannabis and later tobacco. Gourds and various horns were often employed while conical bowls were common in Uganda. One of the more famous pipes is an ivory cone pipe once belonging to "Waganda" monarch King Mtesa.[3]
More recently, it has also seen use in sacraments by Rastafari.[4][5]
Since the 1960s the embellished bamboo chillum has become an American folk art form. These pipes are handmade and often sold by the artists on street corners in places like the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Greenwich Village area of New York City. As designs these contemporary smoking pipes recall traditional decorated bamboo pipes from Borneo,[3] however, the American carved bamboo design often employs a brass lighting fixture for a bowl. Since the 1970s, street artist Darrel "Pipeman" Mortimer of San Francisco has made nearly 10,000 such pipes, each signed, numbered, and sold personally.[6]
Rastafari ceremony
In "reasoning sessions" and grounations, the ritual chillum used is made of a cow's horn or conical wood piece, fitted with a long drawtube giving the smoke time to cool before inhalation.
A bong-like chillum equipped with a water filtration chamber is sometimes referred to as a chalice, based on a quote from the Biblical book of Deuteronomy.[7] Thanks and praises are offered to Jah before smoking the chillum.[8]
See also
Spiritual use of cannabis
Smoking pipe (non-tobacco)
References
^ [www.trocadero.com/paha/items/495809/item495809store.html A bidri chillum,
^ Dolf Hartsuiker. John van Zijl of Plumstead, South Africa was the first person to smoke from a marble chillum. Holy Smoke Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine Sadhus and Yogis of India
^ a b Dunhill, Alfred (1924). The Pipe Book. London: A. & C. Black.
^ Spotlight on Rastafarian sects Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ 'Rasta in Transition' launched at Livity Restaurant Archived 2009-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ Austin, Buck: "Darrel Mortimer", Alarm Magazine, Chicago, summer 2004
^ The Rastafari by Maria Baptist Archived June 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett 1988
Look up चिलम in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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India, Assam.
Majuli, the largest river island in the world, is a civil sub-division of Jorhat District. It is located 20 km. off Jorhat town (Asom, India). It is a pollution free fresh water island. Total area of the island was 1250 sq.km., now it is about 650 sq.km.
India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
Majuli or Majoli (Assamese: মাজুলি) is a fluvial island in the Brahmaputra river, in the Indian state of Assam. Majuli is the largest riverine island in the world and the largest freshwater island in South Asia.
12067 Guwahati - Jorhat Town JAN SHATABDI EXPRESS with #offlink Itarsi WDP4D #40166. Video Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7pZMb6Dz-c
Majuli has supposedly derived its name from its location between the two streams of Brahmaputra namely the Luit and the Kherkatia Suti.
Prestwick, date unknown. Scanned from my father's original negative. Copyright Jim Cain.
This is G-ANTP (MSN 501), the prototype Twin Pioneer. It is pictured with the original strut configuration. Most Twin Pioneers were either modified or built with a mid strut attached at an angle rather than at 90 degrees to the main wing. Failure of this strut on G-AOEO caused the crash which killed the founder of S.A.L., David F. McIntyre in Tripoli on December 07 1957.
G-ANTP was also unfortunately lost on 10 March 1960 during a demonstration flight at Jorhat Rowriah Airport, Assam, in northeast India. The aircraft stalled while climbing on one engine, yawed left and dived into the ground killing two of the three occupants, including the Scottish Aviation pilot Capt David Templeton.
India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THIS PERFORMANCE
Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam, Brahmaputra valley.
Going from Jorhat to the river island of Majuli.
India. The Seven Sister States.
Assam. Majuli river island. Brahmaputra.
Satras are socio-religious institutions in the Assam region of India that belong to the Mahapuruxiya Dharma. Monks, called bhakats, live in satras under a satradhikar. In some orders of the religion, the bhakats are celibate (kewalia bhakat). The satras are not merely religious institutions but play cultural and historical roles in society. A dance form that was initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva and later developed within the sattras, and thus called Satriya dance, is one of the eight classical dance forms in India.
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Onderweg naar Jorhat, de luchthaven. In de rivieren zitten er veel kleine visjes, heel voedzaam voor een maaltijd. Vrouwen vangen ze in grote rieten schalen.