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Date: 23/12/2025
Stone Town is in Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa.
It doesn’t introduce itself loudly.
Doors here are older than many countries.
They don’t open in a hurry.
People walk slowly, not because they are tired,
but because history is close enough to touch.
The smell of cloves stays in the air.
So does memory.
This place has seen traders, sailors, pain, prayer, and patience.
Nothing is hidden, yet nothing is dramatized.
Residents don’t perform their past for visitors.
They simply live beside it.
Stone Town reminds you that pride doesn’t always shout.
Sometimes it just stays.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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