Hello, I'm Munindra, the creator of Pxley.
Pxley began as a personal travel journal documenting journeys across places such as Bangkok, Barcelona, and Bar Harbor. It started as a way to share travel stories and photographs with friends and family, gradually evolving into a broader engagement with culture, place, and everyday life.
Over time, the project reached a wider audience, including recognition from Lonely Planet, which encouraged me to continue exploring cultural storytelling more seriously.
In 2020, during the global pause of the pandemic, I began to rethink the purpose of Pxley, not as a travel publication, but as a long-term body of work focused on cultural memory and documentation.
That reflection eventually brought the focus back to Assam, the region I call home.
Today, Pxley is a curated digital archive of Assamese cultural life.
It documents the living traditions, memory, and everyday experiences of Assam through essays on festivals, sacred spaces, rivers, foodways, textiles, language, history, and material culture.
The focus of this archive is not travel or tourism, but cultural documentation recording forms of knowledge, practice, and lived experience that exist within communities, seasonal cycles, oral traditions, and everyday life.
Pxley is shaped by lived experience, observation, and cultural memory.
It is not an academic archive, nor a journalistic outlet, but a personal cultural record structured as a public-facing knowledge archive.
The essays reflect an effort to understand how traditions persist, evolve, and are experienced across time, especially in a region where much of cultural life is transmitted through practice rather than formal documentation.
Pxley focuses on interconnected aspects of Assamese life, including:
Festivals such as Bohag Bihu, Magh Bihu, and Kati Bihu
Namghars and Neo-Vaishnavite spiritual traditions
Sattriya dance and devotional performance culture
The Brahmaputra River and river-centered life
Assamese foodways and seasonal traditions
Handloom weaving and material culture
Village life, ritual practices, and oral memory
Language, literature, and regional identity
Historical sites and cultural heritage landscapes