My grand parents were amongst the first people to settle in the green town of Bongaigaon. In their times, Bongaigaon was truly a magnificent slice of ecological purity offering one of the greatest concentrations of plant and animal diversity. As a place, it was just a small hamlet, but was surrounded by many villages with isolated populations. But as a nature island, it was a part of a much larger area with variety of species of trees, plants and wildlife, which formed the wild landscape of the undivided Goalpara district. Extensive ... (more)