Keeping Tradition Alive: Joonbeel Mela, Where Trade Takes Place Through Barter, Draws Huge Crowd Amid Covid
Keeping Tradition Alive: Joonbeel Mela, Where Trade Takes Place Through Barter, Draws Huge Crowd Amid Covid FOLLOW US ON: For Indrani, a corporate professional from Guwahati, it was not only a pre-dawn sixty-kilometre drive from the Assam capital but a rare opportunity to break through the shackles of the busy city life and acquaint herself with a traditional trade that exist only in this part of the country. "I brought my mother and elder sister along. This is the first time that I have come to the Joonbeel Mela. I brought a good amount of homemade ‘teel pitha’ (local sweet delicacy) whi...