Being in Majuli | The Shrinking Island of Assam
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- Majuli is the world's largest river island situated in Upper Assam. I and Abhishek Saha went there with the aim of filming a documentary in 2013. This place is the centre of Vaishnavism and is naturally rich in cultural heritage. We though that this would be a perfect place to film a documentary. When we got there, we rented a 100cc motorcycle from a local guy and started exploring this place. I was personally moved by the friendly nature of the people of Majuli.
Despite being rich on so many levels, there is a constant fear of soil erosion, this island faces every year. At this pace, Majuli might die in a few years. We knew about this issue before going in there but seeing it with our own eyes and talking to people who have faced hardships, made us realise how fragile things are.
This film was co-produced by me and Abhishek, who works as a journalist now (www.abhisheksaha.com).
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Very beautifully captured. I belong from Assam yet have never been to Majuli. It's a shame actually. All we (people & government) do is crib about how Majuli is going to die soon. But it's people like you who are genuinely doing something and bringing awareness as much as possible. I personally am truly thankful for that!
I am glad that I am able to do my bit. :)
There is rarely any artist whose work isnt criticised or at times his/her perspective when is not in sync with the masses takes a toll on his work, be it TH-cam comments - likes or anywhere else. But Ayush and Abhishek I have checked most of your videos and I havent found anyone not in sync with your idea of a place . Everytime I see your video I not only get transported to that place but also 'feel' that interaction you have with the people, this is very rare.
I hope this journey gives your opportunity to show your work to the global audience and you get credit masters of this art form.
FANTASTIC!
+Anjaneai thanks brother for being there. :)
This channel deserve more attention. Let's make this guy famous. I'm sharing this...
Thanks Pawan. Keep the love coming :)
I'm from Jorhat and I think you have done a great job brother the video not just displays the rich cultural but also the threat that majuli is facing.I would definitely love to follow and share such a quality channel. All the best I really hope you reach more people through your videos
Thanks Ujjal, Keep the love coming. :)
Assam is the most colourfull state of India... Proud to be an Assaamese ....জয় আই অসম
WOW MAN! Struck my heart!
You're evolving with every documentary you make. I hope this documentary gets endorsed by Discovery/NatGeo.
+Ravi Srivastava (Ramo) one day they will ;)
@Ethereal: They will soon!!
Ethereal thank you for making such a worthy video.. great piece of work. it reflects natural beauty and the satriya culture in majuli. proud to be a majulian
proud to be an Assamese
Superlike! I always talk about this place with my friends. Many of them don't even know about this. Thank you for showing everyone such good places. I kind of feel proud that India has the World's largest river island which is now declared a district also. And after watching this video, I have realized that Majuli is much more than that. I now feel superproud!
Majuli is a cultural capital in itself. So much to preserve.
Thank you bro...i am from assam...
A huge thx to u
Change is inevitable and every change leads to a rebirth of yet more brilliant version of the earlier. Majuli island has been a much awaiting place to visit in my dreams.And hey whoever the person who is having those incredible perspectives,I just want to let him know he is different and I really admire it. If world is a canvas we are merely colors always subject to an unexpected change.....Thanks for including those thoughts of the person who is speaking throughout because I'am happy to know there are people like them is out there. He and his words makes me feel that land is yet more closer to my soul now. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad that you were able to relate to it.
Can I know who has done that voice-over?
I'm glad you covered this part of India & helped to reconnect my roots....and again the voice over was great
plz visit some other places in northeastern regions too
It's nice to see my home towns name hojai in the start of the video
Dude once again next level stuff....keep it coming... amazing!!!
+Ajay Choudhary cheers!
U explained everything bro.loved to see this vedio
The contents in this video is so rich with values. Thanks🙏
Your best video till date..loved it.
Really liked and enjoyed your videos... it made me feel the peace, will continue watching your videos keep it updated...
I'm from hojai the place you are talking in the beginning of the video and the biggest fan of ethereal watching this video for 100th time joi aai Axom ❤️
That was just an another amazing video on your channel. The next video suggested by the youtube was "forest man" which I had watched sometime back and reminds me that deforestation on this very island cannot be ignored as the reason for the serious erosion taking place on this island.
Absolutely. This region and the areas above it - the sand that gets carried down to the riverbed from upper regions, shoots up the water level.
Super Like. I am sharing this with 100+ of my friends
Wow!
Great work piece.. Touched my soul. Hoping to see more of your such creations.
Thanks Partha. New videos coming. Do subscribe.
Just love uo work!! Super awesome
This one is the best Ethereal video.
great job...video and storytelling are quite good...quite impressed...hope so see more great works from your end in the upcoming days..
More coming up! Thanks Kajal. Hope you have subscribed.
You guys reflect the real image of majuli. I am from Assam. I know how Majuli has being destroyed every year due to massive flood by mighty river Bramhaputra. Govt. Chnaged but nothing happened. Its our destiny that someday we gonna loss our cultural heritage call Biggest river island named MAJULI.
Love from assam
Love your work bru
good job guys!!keep doing this types of video...it will be very helpful to know about our cultural deeply and reveled new places of heavy happiness and peace
+Shyamal Talukdar thanks brother! Lot more to do..
super docu.loved it.its a very dear land for me.it's next to my village.
very good presentation buddy...keeep going
Great work bro!!
Am speechless
This is beautiful and valuable
Am from Majuli
Love from Majuli❤️
You have a captivating narration skill.
Your last words in the filim simply moved me.
With lots of love
From
Ashish
Regards #Ashishchandrana
Amazing as always.....keep up the good work 👍
+Saurov Nandy thanks for being ever encouraging :)
Excellent videography like a Pro.
👍✌️
thanks for making this.
Thanks for watching!
loved ur videos bro..each n everyone..keep it up 👌👍
Thanks bro!
vry good presentation guys.
These are some instances when the world seems a better place....
I'm spellbound, just amazing
Loved it, I am from majuli.
Just amazing... Touched my heart. Love you bro.
Love you too!
Amazing work. Hoping to see more of great content just like this!
+Siddharth Wankhade lot more to come. Hope you have subscribed.
+Ethereal
subscribed since "Go Delhi Go" :P
Very well Documented !
The explanation at the end just blew me away !
Just some of my thoughts over there.
great...you went there too..I always wanted to be there after watching episode of kalki koechlin
nice
+bijay behera it's a beautiful place.
Buddy my hmtown is hojai...n at the starting of the video...i heard hojai.......wow!!
best documentary on majuli ever
Thanks Kamal!
Really really good. You are doing some superb work. This video should be shown in Doordarshan. Extremely well done, keep it up brother
One day it will be on TV ;)
Bro.... Khoob Bhalo.....
Nice work..Thanks for such a beautiful documentary
Glad you liked it. Cheers!
just watched it Debojit Sir !! When are you taking me here ?
You are awesome.. subscribed
Wow...you are really doing such a good job....👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
+Sudipta Rajkumari glad you liked it! Subscribed?
Keep doing this bro....
👍👍👍 very nice video
Storytelling at its best. It's amazing how this video manages to make us feel how different life is in different places.. capturing the essence of the sankardev and the sanatan dharma, probably satisfied the entire approach of Majuli.
+Barsha Bhattacharjee Shankardev and Madhavdev together. Majuli will live long.
Ethereal We can only hope that more documentarians and influential people keep the beauty of such places alive. Thank You Ethereal for visiting such places and bringing it out to the people.
Amazing video please make more like this
+fife yea. Do subscribe.
improvement in narration and sound.. nice... keep it raw. well done
+virendra vikram thanks! Will get even better with time. Cheers!
Your Videos are so beautiful makes me want to travel with u.Normally Tourists don't cover such eternal and inside beauty of a place👌
Thanks Surbhi. Glad to hear it :)
Great shoot dude :-)
Thanks Ankit. Hope you have subscribed.
Very good video
Ys.....had been there.....it's beautiful
India needs to take spirituality mainstream. It can truly transform the society to a whole different level. This is INDIA's greatest strength. In India's villages lies the remains of it's great civilisation.
Very true!
Nice documentary
Beautifully Done. 💜 :')
Cheers Dirag!
Beautiful vlog.. as well as the narration. Majuli is undergoing fast erosion due to climate change. I hope you got the chance to visit Jadav Payeng and his forest.. Forest man on his quest of saving the biggest river Island of the world.:) thank you for the peek into this piece of paradise..:) cheers!
We didn't get a chance to meet him though. Majuli was anyway a great eyeopener.
may be next time, for you.. and may be sometime for me :) thanks again for the vlog..
Super brother
Beautiful Video! Which Gear You People Generally use for making documentaries and Hyperlapse?
wow
beautiful
Very good work! But I wish you had covered more about the culture and spiritual practices in the Satras of Majuli which is the backbone of human life there. Without that, I felt the VLOG is incomplete.
i m planning to visit here..
good work bro! I am planning my visit next week. how do you stay there? i mean in satras?
Nice Content.. :)
+Mayur Gosavi thank you bruv!
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Amazing video! What camera do you use?
This was shot on a Canon 6D.
Assame girls are the most beautiful on the planet earth.
oooo nice men
just love your work bro.. are you guys from Kolkata?
+Debanjan Mondal thanks! Based out of Delhi.
Ethereal that's great... 👍👍👍
Etheral, we've spoken before, and by this comment I want to draw ur focus to a half built hydro electric power plant at subansiri, one of the tributaries of brahmaputra. People stopped it from getting built, people, half educated decided it was bad for them, people brought the flood upon themselves.
u didn't do kayaking??
will u please name the satra where u stayed
+bumba banerjee notun kamlabari.
Is that guy at the starting of the video is abhishek saha from BIT Mesra ?
Yep.
j'ai vu un documentaire à propos de Majuli ,qui traitait de l'orphelinat pour les jeunes garçons où on leur apprend les danses traditionnelles. Existe t il la même chose pour les petites filles ?
Nice one. what do you do for earning ????
+Dharmik Bhatt make films.
Jaydev Payeng
I want to reach out to you "ETHERAL"....Desperately
how do I do that? &
well, i am very much read to do what it takes!!!
contact@etherealcolours.com
@ethereal, is there any chance/medium to meet you, let me know just want to meet you, nothing related to business though!
Yea, you can come over. Drop a mail on contact@etherealcolours.com.
A suggestion/advice : Join BBC Earth or NatGeo, then work for India, it will help you more to show our Great Country. Thanks for your efforts and show us beautiful India at no cost..
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I'd love to work with NatGeo/BBC. Having said that, I see Ethereal doing the same (even better perhaps) in the years to come. :)
@@EtherealColours You are doing better than them, I suggest you to use of their platform for our Beautiful Country. Thanks a lot for sharing with us.. Good luck... waiting for your next explore..
"Matha phadna" does not mean cracking skull.
Well done. It needs to documented. However I would like to suggest you to take an interpreter. Had the person been speaking in his own mother tongue, he would have articulated things in a better way. Therefore it's just a suggestion that let the natives narrate their stories in their own mother tongues.
Or else you know how it works for majority of the people. Taking the interview in Hindi with the natives who speak an entirely different and distinct languages gives an impression that Hindi is the only language that is spoken in every nook and corner of the country. It reinforces the Hindi hegemony and domination. Most people from Hindi belt can't get beyond their myopic outlook and often fail to grasp the fact about our country's linguistic diversity. They take it for granted that Hindi is a national language and must be imposed on other people even if they speak different language.
I don't mean to often anybody but yes, hindi isn't a national language and speaking hindi can never be equated with being an Indian. I can speak 5 different languages belonging to entirely three unrelated and different families of languages. Hindi is one of them.
The point is, I am not anti-hindi or any sort of that. I can speak Hindi fluently but that's not because it's my language or it's spoken in my place. It's all because of the circumstances and I have no problem with that.
I hope you get what I mean.
Let's equally respect other Indian languages as much as we respect Hindi.
I feel you Aronaisa. Thanks for the feedback - shall keep it in mind. Cheers!
Another mother kyun father common hei kya
You don't live in the island you live on the island
Thanks for correcting.
Buy a Drone! you are a story Teller !
Have one ;) Watchout for upcoming videos.
Waiting!