In This essay we are going to talk about the My Hometown. Everyone of us is close to our own hometown. Mostly because we have spent our childhood and boyhood there. We have n number of memories in our hometown and we have grown up there. We have learnt many important lessons and what not. Our family and friends are in our hometown. Hometown is ought to be special to each one of us. But sadly, not everyone is lucky enough to call a place their hometown.
Technically, we all have hometowns but not all have grown up in their hometowns. Many of us had to shift from one place to another due to our parent’s jobs and their transfers. Many of us have grown up in hostels away from our hometowns. So lucky are those who got a chance to spend time in their hometown. This is an essay on my hometown.
Short Essay On My Home Town
I hail from the North East of India. The north eastern states of India are known as the seven sisters of India. I am from Assam. My hometown is called Tezpur. It is a small town in central Assam. And for me, it is the prettiest town. Well, many may disagree with this but as I had mentioned before, one’s hometown is always special for them. it falls under the district of Sonitpur. It is the largest of the north bank cities. It is barely 200 kms away from Guwahati. And it is the fifth largest city of Assam. This is well connected town and shares borders with Arunachal Pradesh. Tezpur is known for its historical heritage.
It has one of the oldest and finest collections of sculptural art. The town is majorly known for its tea plantations. It is near to one of the nicest and biggest national parks of India- that is the Kaziranga national park. It is one of the oldest cities of Assam. And it is also called the cultural capital of Assam. The town is hilly and is surrounded by banks of the Brahmaputra River.
I have spent more than 15years of my life in this town before shifting for higher studies. And I have numerous memories in this city. Tezpur is known for its cleanliness and peaceful environment. The environment of Tezpur is what I miss the most. The place was adequately developed and under developed at the same time. One could hear birds chirping and noisy traffic at the same time. The place had well maintained buildings as well as greenery all over. The beauty of Tezpur was picturesque. One would never want to leave Tezpur if he had understood the beauty of Tezpur. May be that is the reason Tezpur sees many migrators every day.
My place in Tezpur was surrounded by luscious green trees. I could see beautiful sunsets every day from my terrace. Everyday I would wake up to birds chirping. As I have already shared that Tezpur is bank city, we had pretty ghats which surrounded the whole city. One of the ghats was just one kilometre away from my place. We would cycle to that ghat occasionally. The prettiest part about Brahmaputra is the river dolphins. We would occasionally witness those as well.
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The climate of my town is another attractive factor of my town. It is neither too cold nor too hot. Assam suffers floods almost every day but as Tezpur is a hilly region, it does not even suffer from floods. The maximum temperature goes up to 34 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature in winters goes as down as 12 degrees Celsius.
The name of the town, Tezpur, has a historical story related to it too. ‘tezpur’ literally means ‘the city of blood’. Sounds astonishing, right? It is based on the romantic epic of Usha and Aniruddha. The epic revolves around the king, Banasura, the great Asura king of the ancient Tezpur. King Banasura had a beautiful daughter named as Usha. Usha had a best friend who was known to have artistic skills and magical powers. That best friend was named as Chitralekha. It is said that Usha once saw a prince in her dreams and fell in love with that prince. Next morning, she described everything to Chitralekha. Chitralekha, with the help of the description given by Usha, made a painting of Usha’s dream boy.
As chitra lekha had magical powers, she even identified the boy. The boy happened to be the grandson of Dwarka’s king Shri Krishna. Chitralekha with the help of her magical powers, she helped the two to meet, fall in love and get married as per the Gandharva rites. But all this was done without the knowledge of the king and the father Banasura. When Banasura got to know all this, he lost his temper completely and jailed Anirudha. When shri Krishna learnt this, he arrived as soon as possible to the lands of ancient Tezpur. Angry Banasura and king shri Krishna had a bloody fight. As a result of that, the land saw bloody streams of human blood. And the place was named after this incident.
Tezpur has always been an attractive place for the tourists and specifically for the history buffs. As it is one of the oldest cities of Assam, it is a paradise to history lovers. It has ruins from the 4th century. Besides history, it is known for the national parks and the wildlife sanctuaries. It has a very old temple too which attracts visitors every year. It has always been a great holiday destination. No doubt on why it was favoured by British who ruled India.
This was an essay on my hometown: Tezpur. I hope I was able to get you an all-round view of the town. My experience of my hometown has been my favourite. I am sure that your hometown has soft corner in your heart too. Thank you.