Bahniman Brahmaputra Heritage Centre

In Assam, a multi-crore renovation converts a colonial bungalow into a heritage centrennLong ago, the military base for the Ahoms of Assam, and today, a heritage centre celebrating the Brahmaputra. The story of a 19th century bungalow, strategically placed atop a hillock in Guwahati’s Pan Bazaar, in its new avatar.nnOver the years, the house on the hill went by several names: the Burra Sahib Bungalow, Bentick’s Bungalow — but to the resident of Guwahati, it has always been the DC’s Bungalow. A side of it looks out on the Brahmaputra, and out at a distance, the tiny Umananda Island. In the 1600s when the Ahom-Mughal conflict was at its peak, it was from this hilltop that the first signs of oncoming trouble could be spotted. Today, on the other side of the hill, the traffic of a busy city hums on — the hill a physical barrier that demarcates the old from the new.nnBut come May, the old will become the new as the 19th century house on the hill resurfaces as the Bahniman Brahmaputra River Heritage Centre. It’s a project that has been in the making for almost four years now, has a multicore budget, and will eventually fit right into the Brahmaputra Riverfront Development project: at the base of the hill, there are plans to beautify a 6km stretch of the riverfront, part of the bigger move by the Assam Government to make Guwahati a “Smart City”. Initially set to open on April 29, the centre is now slated to be officially inaugurated “sometime next month” by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, according to sources in the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), which is handling the project.

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