Manas National Park

Evening markets (Bazar) are the mirrors of Manas village life. These are the most charming and lively places of Manas. This is also a place of day to day social gathering and contributed a lot to the uplift of the local economy.  I  wanted to give money to people like small village businesswomen so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their products at the price which the markets gave them-which was much higher than that what the trader was giving them (Muhammad Yunus). There is a common thought in the rural poor of Assam and Bodoland or maybe it is the same to all over the Indian Subcontinent that money going to hands of women get much more benefit to family than money to the man. The participation of women businesswomen is the real beauty of all the rural markets in the Bodoland. The buyer can able to buy lots of seasonal agricultural products even unknown herbs twigs from such women. They are the real beauty and spirit of the market. Another beauty i...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise (Aldo Leopold) .  There are thousand of dreams to preserve Manas as one of the best resourceful, beautiful places of the earth. It is not an easy task. I also dream for better Manas for our future generation. I believe -"  If someone keeps searching for everything beautiful in this world that person eventually becomes it". I have seen some young force of Assam working very hard for conservation activities of Manas. They are from some reputed NGO and self-interested naturalist, villagers, tourist as well as government officials. This united force has contributed a lot to the betterment of this fragile landscape. Due to this effort, Manas have been reviving and we are getting the result one after another.  Under the stewardship of park authority, tiger and its prey monitoring exercise is progressed with camera traps....

  Sukleswar Nath Sukleswar Nath (Hoko) is a promising nature guide from Manas National Park. He born and brought up at the lap of Nature. He can identify more than 350 rare and endangered birds in Manas as well as North Eastern Region of  India. He has very good knowledge of plants, mammals, and reptiles .  He is an executive member of Manas Ever Welfare Society (MEWS) based at  Gyati  Gaon under Bansbari range of Manas National Park.  He started his professional career from the year 2006. But he learned the basics of natural language since childhood from his father. Sukleswar father is a retired forester from the Manas National Park. He earned professional skills of nature guides from senior colleagues of MEWS and also the participation of a number of capacity building training from time to time. He is very humble, faithful . Anyone may contact him as nature guide with full confidence.  He  speaks Assamese, Bodo,...

As a wildlife field biologist, I have many memorable experiences with wild animal birds, reptiles, and other smaller creatures as well as plants. Today I would like to write a beautiful encounter with Indian Roller ( Cooracious benghalensis ) inside Manas a few years back.   In Assamese and Hindi, this bird is known as Neelkantha (Blue that). It is also the state bird of Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh of India. Several mythological legends are also associated with it. It is said to be sacred to Vishnu (Hindu God) and caught and released festivals like Dussera and Durga Puja. Its name Neelkantha  is associated with deity Shiva (Who drank poison resulting into his blue throat). It can create the variety of sounds. Often it creates harsh crow-like sounds. It eats insects, arachnids, small reptiles, small amphibians. They often are seen around grassland burning areas of Manas during the winter season to eat insects.Though generally,...