Jakhalabandha: Enriching Culture

In the heart of Kaliabor in central Assam lies a small town Jakhlabandha. This place is famous for two things, its 24x7 connectivity and for the door less hotels. Jakhalabandha never sleeps, even at the midnight hours you will feel like you are somewhere in a foreign location because of the choice of the music that is played during night hours. Situated in the southern bank of river Brahmaputra and near the Kollong River the place is surrounded and based on the foothills of Karbi Hills and Burapahar.

Jakhalabandha is the business center of Kaliabor. Even the place is basically a commercial hub, people across the town are highly religious and cultural. I have observed that people of various caste, language, religions resides together since ages and respect each other’s culture a lot and take part in the festivals together. The Assamese during Bihu, Bengali’s during Astoprohor (Hare Krisna Kirtan), the Hindi Bhashi’s during Ganesh Chaturathi and Chat Puja and the Muslism’s during EID. Also a large number of Adivasi, Nepal and Karbi share’s their own unity and dignity in this matter. Not to forget Durga Puja adds all the above together removing all the barriers and discrimination in the society.

One might just pass away the city and drop down to the place of lunch or dinner in the line hotels but this place has much more to attract the visitors, known as the green village, Jakhalabandha is the gateway to the Kaziranga National Park and not to forget the famous religious place around it. Starting from Kamakhya temple, Hatimura temple, naturally made Siv-durga temple of Silkhurung and famous Bhorali Namghar is just a step away from the heart of the city.

Who says modernization kills culture and moral ethics, even the pace of modernization has increased, people here are still well cultured and religious ignoring the modern pseudo westernized world.