🇮🇳 Assamvs🇮🇳 Kashmir

🇮🇳 Assam Fun Fact

Assam produces over 50% of India's tea output — and 6% of global tea production. The Brahmaputra River, which flows through the state, is one of only a few rivers in the world classified as male in Hindu tradition. During the 2004 floods, the Brahmaputra was over 80 km wide in places. Assam is also one of only two regions in the world (the other being Kaziranga) where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and wild buffalo coexist in the wild.

🇮🇳 Kashmir Fun Fact

The Dal Lake 'floating gardens' (rad) are man-made islands of vegetation woven together over centuries — vegetable farmers grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and lotus roots in plots that literally float on the lake and can be poled to market by shikara. Kashmir saffron (Crocus sativus Kashmirianus) grown in the Pampore crocus fields is among the world's most prized — it takes 150,000 flowers to produce 1 kg of dried saffron, and the harvest window is just two weeks in October.