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Situated at the north-eastern
region of India, Tripura is a small hilly state that offers
immense natural beauty and a captivating cultural heritage of
music, fine arts, handicrafts and dance. Tripura is bounded on
the north, west, south and south-east by Bangladesh whereas in
the east it has a common boundary with Assam and Mizoram. The
economy is mainly an agricultural one but Tripura is slowly
making her way into the field of industrial development.
Due to the tropical climatic conditions, the state is usually
hot between March and May while the temperatures drop by
October. During the Monsoons the region gets an average
rainfall of about 230cm/annum. This hot and wet climate
provides Tripura with a bounty of lush expanses and a diverse
array of flora and fauna that has been a treat of the eye.
The picturesque beauty of this former princely state had
amazed India’s most illustrious bard Rabindranath Tagore so
much that he penned the words
“… the wood-land of Tripura have sent out invitation to their
floral feast through their courier of the south wind and I
have come here as a friend.” |