RING SIDE VIEW 2010
2010
(29.Dec.2010)
Resolutions and wishes
An avid follower of the Gregorian calendar, a dear friend celebrates Christmas religiously. Apart from attending church services, she ensures that...
Locating the nearest bin
If you ignore the dust in Itanagar caused by the highway construction and consequent traffic jam, and angry drivers swearing in between their mobile...
Lessons for Indian Army from Bomdila
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman is scheduled to visit Dibang Valley to celebrate Diwali with the Indian Army. But the festive season has been marred...
The unbearable slowness of TAH
At a cost of Rs 10,000 crore to connect Arunachal, the Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which started in 2008 under the UPA, is the most...
Tirap massacre and NSCN (IM)’s silence
The arrest of Anok Wangsa, the NSCN (IM)'s area commander of Longding in Arunachal, Charaideo in Assam and Mon in Nagaland, is a major...
Hopelessly out of commission
The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has a rival, if not better, in the Arunachal Pradesh Staff Selection Board.
Since the notification which was out...
PRC: A question of relative permanence
Ringside view
Seeking permanent resident certificates (PRC) for the non-Arunachal Pradesh Scheduled Tribes (APST) settled in Namsai, Lohit and Changlang districts, the United People's Movement...
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...
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...
Let’s not give up
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Some years back, I met a guy outside psychiatrist Dr Tame Kena's chamber, where I was seeking treatment for post traumatic stress...
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...
Policing by students
The All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU) has been at the forefront of the anti-refugee movement in the state for decades now. As opposed...
Shaky bureaucratic boat
It appears that in Arunachal, bureaucrats at the top have stepped onto each other's foot; pushing the entire bureaucratic boat to a wild tempest....
The dismantling of Kashmir and its implications
On 3 August, Amarnath Yatra, the pilgrimage to the Hindu shrine located some 140 kilometres from Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir, was called off...
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...
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...
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...
Elections and the NSCN
39-year-old former zilla parishad member Seliam Wangsa was killed last Saturday at Nginu village in Longding district. According to his friends, he was killed...
No shame in bleeding
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On 12 March, Congress MLA Ninong Ering moved a private member's resolution in the legislative assembly, seeking a day's leave for menstruating...
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...