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Twelve-year-old A wants to be a professional painter when she grows up. But I don't have enough time, she says while comparing her prize...
A festival full of promises
The recently held three-day Arunachal Literature Festival - 2018 could well be termed the beginning of a new era of literary activities in the...
Walking a tightrope
Monday Musing
Nobody would have thought that Pema Khandu, who led the BJP to a convincing win in the 2019 election as the chief ministerial...
Flexing muscle with the red dragon
Monday Musing
When it comes to China and Chinese policy, the Indian government, regardless of which political party is at the Centre, always adopts a...
Cannot risk being complacent about coronavirus
Monday Musing
The prevailing coronavirus pandemic has put several restrictions on the lives of all of us and prepared us to accept the new normal...
Relevance of Nehru and his ideology
Monday Musing
In the month of July, as the US forces started to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban militants started to take over the country...
Accidents and blood money
It is that time of the month when my turn to pen down 'Monday Musing' has arrived, and this time the events of the...
Tracing my footprints
Monday Musing
As a teen, I was fascinated by movie stars and musicians. I didn't want to be them; I simply wanted to meet them...
My Covid-19 experience
Monday Musing
On 8 September, I started feeling unwell. I had severe body pain, fever, and cough. Immediately, I went for a rapid antigen test...
In search of better opportunities
Monday Musing
Aonong (name changed), a 30-year-old woman from a remote village in Arunachal, presently working at a mall in New Delhi, has not been...
The vaccination pass
Monday Musing
At the very beginning of the pandemic, parents and guardians were reluctant to send their children to school, but after a complete year...
Orange bowl of Arunachal coming undone
Dambuk, a small town in Lower Dibang Valley (LDV) district of Arunachal Pradesh, does not require an introduction. One of the most picturesque places...
Who would bear Arunachal’s burden?
Monday Musing
Barely days after union Law & Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju's divulgement of the Centre's plan to relocate the Chakma-Hajong (CH) refugees from Arunachal,...
Will the greenfield project ever take off?
Will the greenfield airport project in Hollongi ever take off? This is the million-dollar question of every Arunachali at the moment.
The state government on...
Hopes from smart city
Monday Musing
There is an air of optimism following the inclusion of Itanagar under the smart city project by the ministry of urban development.
Pasighat town...
Human-elephant conflicts
The elephant population in Arunachal Pradesh has remarkably increased from 890 in 2012 to 1,614 in 2017. As per the elephant census report of...
Monsoon menace: Time to dam the Siang?
Flights Of Fantasy
Every year, the rampaging Siang river devastates large areas of prime, fertile land in many areas of East Siang, Siang and Upper...
Inaction continues as drug menace thrives
Monday Musing
The state government had allocated Rs 10 crore in the last budget for modernizing drug de-addiction centres across Arunachal Pradesh.
The budget session for...
Over to you, CBI
The Pema Khandu government's decision to hand over the Toko Yame and the Ojing Taying murder cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...
Stapled Visa and Arunachal Athletes
Monday Musing
It is truly heartbreaking that three athletes from Arunachal Pradesh could not participate in the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games through no fault of...