RING SIDE VIEW 2013
2013
(04. December.2013)
The border and wandering mind
It was indeed a big relief to hear from the President of India that “Since Arunachal Pradesh has common...
RING SIDE VIEW 2014
2014
(24 December, 2014)
A chilling reminder
After the horrendous Daporijo Police Station MMS scandal that rocked the state in 2011, yet again, an explicit video...
Continued violence against women and children
As the state was geared up for the festive season of Christmas and New Year, we woke up to the news about the ghastly...
Religion, culture and vanishing languages
Call it naivety or a smart political move, Chief Minister Pema Khandu literally stirred a hornet's nest by stating that the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom...
RING SIDE VIEW 2016
July 27, 2016
Game of wait and watch
The swearing-in ceremony of council of ministers, scheduled for Wednesday has reportedly been postponed hours after invitation cards...
Not guns, what Siang needs is dialogue on the 11,000 mw hydropower project
A circular issued by the Siang district administration regarding the arrangement of accommodation for the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) at Riew village, in...
Negotiating road traffic in Capital
Getting stuck in the traffic is the new normal in the capital. It could be anywhere from half an hour to hours together. One...
An airport named assurance
If you read this newspaper, it is likely that you have read the phrase 'time-bound completion' more than once a week. Arunachal is known...
Time to ring the bell
It's that time of the year when everyone will be expressing outrage on social media about the pass percentage in the central board exams;...
Borders too far
It's rare for common Arunachalees to reach the last Indo-Tibetan border posts unless invited by the Indian Army during formal occasions like peacetime border...
When will the guns go silent?
The brutal killing of Arunachalee politician Tirong Aboh and 10 others, including his son, in Tirap has numbed the state with pain.
The sheer brutality...
When we fail children
Since December 23rd, four minors have been raped. Of the four, two were killed.
On February 12, a five-year-old kindergarten student went missing from near...
Bury the CAB
The controversial citizenship amendment bill (CAB), amending the Citizenship Act of 1955, is set to make a comeback even as the Northeast of India...
RING SIDE VIEW 2010
(1. Sep. 2010)
People and their agenda
The centre’s detour on Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in tribal inhabited Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa comes at a time...
Their culture and our languages
The Arunachal Pradesh government has approved creation of Department of Indigenous Faith & Cultural Affairs to "preserve and promote culture and faiths of the...
Let no mother cry again
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and...
Budget and plans for tomorrow
If you overlook the names of the schemes which are in impossibly tough Hindi and named after people, you might need to Google it...
Stakes are high in Basar
BASAR, 16 Apr: If one constituency has captured the attention of the people of the state, it has to be the 29-Basar constituency, where...
More than just a nuisance
It is too early to know whether United Tani Army chair Anthony Doke is a pawn of the state, to be used and discarded,...
Rape cases, policing and judiciary
The President of India has promulgated the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018 to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the...