Overview
- Cricket tourists and visiting reporters are making purposeful detours to Zubeen Xetra in Sonapur as Guwahati hosts its maiden Test match.
- Local guides and journalists report a surge of queries for directions to the site, reflecting newfound national curiosity about Garg’s legacy.
- The memorial, referred to as Zubeen Xetra or Zubeen Kshetra, is drawing steady streams of visitors who leave flowers, observe silence, and treat it like a pilgrimage.
- Garg died on September 19 in Singapore while swimming, and his funeral drew crowds described as lakhs, with large public remembrances on November 18.
- Assam Police has formed a Special Investigation Team to probe the circumstances of his death, with interest in the inquiry continuing alongside the memorial visits.