Guwahati: The ingeniously engineered chang ghars or elevated bamboo dwellings, built assiduously by the Mishing tribe in the world’s largest riverine island — Majuli — and elsewhere in upper ...

The Chang Ghar is a traditional house of the Mising community, made of bamboo and raised on stilts of up to 10 feet or more above the ground. The houses were developed by this community, who have ...

Dhemaji (Assam), May 11 (PTI) ... So I live in a 'chang ghar' here with other women nearby. Sometimes, if my children are ill, it is easier to get help here," she tells PTI.

The amazing abodes of Assam. We leaf through the pages of a remarkable new coffee table book, Akriti, ... load-bearing timber frames in the chang ghar (stilts) or two-storied style.

According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), this year’s floods affected over three million people and forced around 271,000 to take shelter in relief camps across the state.