Budget wish list

While many good initiatives were introduced in the last budget, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic messed up the economy of the world, including India and...

Compulsory NCC for students?

Flights Of Fantasy Recently, a 10-day combined annual training camp for the National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets was conducted by the 22 Arunachal Pradesh (I)...

Hello, 2023

Flights Of Fantasy Yet another new year dawns! The sun's rays over Dong in Arunachal Pradesh ushered in another New Year: 2023. The world bid...

Arunachal of our dreams

Flights Of Fantasy Hamara Arunachal has undergone enormous transformation since the NEFA days. The population increased from 3.5 lakhs in 1961 to about 14 lakhs...

Budgetonomics

Flights Of Fantasy The annual budget for Arunachal Pradesh was presented on 8 July. The projected total revenue and capital receipts for 2019-20 is Rs...

Expensive living in Arunachal

Flights Of Fantasy Many Arunachalees will agree that almost everything is more expensive in our state compared to neighbouring states. The cost of most items...

Vanishing tribal ethos

Flights Of Fantasy World over, many people consider tribal lifestyle as nearest to living in consonance with nature. Most tribal people lived in harmony with...

Why are Covid cases not coming down?

Flights Of Fantasy Covid-19 has spread to all corners of the world, infecting more than 18 crore persons, with 40 lakh plus fatalities. India has...

One Arunachal and Paras

Flights Of Fantasy Recent regional news and social media have been dominated by a YouTuber/online gamer named Paras and his distasteful tweet about Arunachal. The...

Time to repeal AFSPA ?

Flights Of Fantasy One of the most contentious socio-political issues confronting people from North East India is the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA. The...

Chandrayaan: Voyage to ‘Polo’

Flights Of Fantasy Recently, Chandrayaan-3 was successfully launched on 14 July, 2023. Presently, Chandrayaan-3 is orbiting Earth and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully...

Hindi: Arunachal’s new mother tongue

Flights Of Fantasy Almost all the states of India comprise largely of people who speak one common language. Bengal has Bengali, Maharashtra has Marathi, Gujarat...

Clean elections

Flights Of Fantasy The ongoing simultaneous elections in 'peace loving' Arunachal Pradesh have been fiercely contested amid reports of violent incidents, arson, assault on government...

Tackling Covid with positivity

Flights Of Fantasy The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has infected 173 lakh and killed 6.74 lakh people. Indian figures are 16.4 lakh infected, with 35,700 deaths....

Dreams unlimited

Flights Of Fantasy Everyone sees dreams. Dreams are explained as a succession of images, ideas, remotions and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind...

Smile and laugh, please

Flights Of Fantasy As a society, are we too serious in life? It appears that Northeasterners smile less, laugh less, and appear more serious at...

Siang river devastation to villages of Mebo

Flights Of Fantasy The rampaging Siang river is devastating large areas of prime, fertile land in the left bank areas of Mebo subdivision in East...

Arunachal of our dreams

Flights Of Fantasy Since the NEFA days, Arunachal Pradesh has undergone enormous transformation. The population increased from 3.5 lakhs in 1961 to about 13.8 lakhs,...

Job seeker or job giver?

Flights Of Fantasy "The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers," APJ Abdul Kalam Parents and elders advise their children to study...

Netaji’s republic

Flights Of Fantasy Recently India celebrated the 73rd Republic Day with pomp and gaiety. This year also marks the 75th year of India's independence being...