1 Sights War Cemetery HISTORIC SITE (hdawn-dusk Mon-Sat) This immaculate War Cemetery cafe chalet contains the graves of 1400 British, Commonwealth cafe chalet and Indian soldiers. It stands at the crucially strategic junction of the Dimapur cafe chalet and Imphal roads, the site of intense fighting against the Japanese during a 64-day WWII battle.
SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher Sankardev, the faith eschews the caste system and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, cafe chalet prayer hall usually open sided and shaped like an upside-down oil tanker. cafe chalet Beneath the eastern end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal flame, the Gita and possibly a horde of instructive cafe chalet (but not divine) cafe chalet images.
Market MARKET (Mission Veng St) A Saturday street market sprawls along the street with village women offering fruit, cafe chalet vegetables, maybe a dead pig, fish and live hens in individualised wickerwork carry-away baskets.
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