Hello, I'm Munindra, the creator of Pxley.
Pxley is a personal archive of writing about place, culture, and memory.
The project began as a travel journal, documenting encounters with places, landscapes, and communities through stories and photographs. Over time, those journeys developed into a deeper interest in how places hold history, how traditions are carried forward, and how people remain connected to where they come from.
Pxley began by recording experiences across different parts of the world, including places such as Bangkok, Barcelona, and Bar Harbor. These early journeys shaped a way of observing places through their histories, architecture, landscapes, and everyday life.
Over time, the focus of Pxley shifted toward documenting cultural memory and the stories embedded within communities. The project became less about the journey itself and more about understanding the traditions, practices, and experiences that give places their character.
The central body of work within Pxley is Explore Assam, a completed collection of essays documenting Assam's history, traditions, landscapes, crafts, foodways, spiritual practices, and lived experiences.
As a native of Assam who has lived away and returned, I draw on personal experience alongside research and observation to explore the region’s cultural life and the traditions that continue across generations.
The collection reflects an effort to document aspects of Assamese life that are carried through practice, memory, and everyday experience.
Pxley is shaped by observation, personal connection, and cultural curiosity.
The essays bring together lived experience, historical research, and reflections on the ways traditions evolve over time. The work is a personal record of places and cultures as they are experienced, remembered, and passed forward.
The earlier travel writing within Pxley represents the foundation of this perspective. These stories record encounters with different places and the questions they raised about history, identity, architecture, landscapes, and belonging.
The same interest in place, identity, and belonging also appears in Plastic on a Lampshade: An Immigrant's America, a personal narrative exploring migration, cultural assimilation, family, and the experience of building a life between cultures.
Selected Journeys
Together, these works form part of the path that eventually led Pxley toward cultural documentation.