India, Oct. 19 -- It starts with a faint sound: the clinking of utensils, a creak in the wall, the lightest trembling beneath your feet. In Assam, that sound is no stranger. Within moments, people pause mid-conversation, eyes dart to the swaying ceiling fan, and then everyone quietly steps outside. The ground quivers, then settles, and life resumes as if nothing happened. Yet behind that calm return lies a collective unease, a quiet understanding that the land we love is never entirely still.

Assam's beauty has always carried a subtle warning. Beneath its gentle hills, the endless green of its valleys, and the broad stretch of the Brahmaputra lies one of the most restless regions on Earth. The state sits in Seismic Zone V, the highest ri...