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This book flows with the Brahmaputra from Tibet to the Ganga, blending travel, memoir and history
An excerpt from ‘The Braided River: A Journey Along The Brahmaputra’, by Samrat Choudhury.
We had not thought that the Brahmaputra would be hard to find. It’s huge, it’s a river, and it’s right there. I had seen it many times in Guwahati, where it is a single channel of water flowing between two banks and the opposite bank is visible, and of course I had seen it neatly marked on maps. After our first day in Dibrugarh, I realised something was amiss.
Mandarin duck in Assam | Photo Credit:
Gunjan Gogoi
The beautiful Mandarin duck has shown up in Assam after a century, much to the excitement of the birding community, and it is not alone
“I couldn’t believe it,” says Madhab Gogoi excitedly over the phone from Assam, about his surprise date with the spectacular-looking bird in the early weeks of February. He was at Maguri-Motapung
beel (wetland) in Tinsukia district, Assam, birdwatching in the wetlands when he noticed a colourful bird floating on the surface of the lake. Curious, he zoomed in with his binoculars and realised that it was the Mandarin duck, a rare bird that was last seen in Assam in the 1900s.