Addiction, a precarious issue in Arunachal

Monday Musing Arunachal Pradesh has been witnessing an increase in the number of HIV positive cases, with a total of 1,122 total positive cases recorded...

Cleanliness is a collective responsibility

Monday Musing As per recent Swachh Survekshan 2020 results, Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal has been ranked 7th among the 10 dirtiest cities of the...

Covid-19: Real fight begins in the state

Monday Musing The world is fighting a different kind of war in the year 2020, and the fight will probably continue for one more year....

The vanity of human wishes

Monday Musing A brotherly elbow The need to be alone and content in one's own company is much undervalued, and often misunderstood. People generally require a social...

Trekking the seven lakes

Monday Musing Once considered to be the most difficult district to live in and travel to, Dibang Valley is the new big thing in Arunachal's...

‘Unspoken words’ inspire young poets to speak up 

Monday Musing Poetry does magic with its sublime words; so does art, to those who have a taste for it. Many great poets have translated...

Crushed mountains, fractured highways

Monday Musing It's that time of the year when land starts falling apart, torn by human interventions and the pressure of monsoon rains, visuals of...

Shooting prices, falling sales

Monday Musing The stiff rise in the prices of vegetables in the markets of the capital complex in the recent past put the consumers' budgets...

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...

Temporary fixes aren’t enough to solve the perennial water shortage in the ICR

Monday Musing   With the arrival of the monsoon, the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) begins to face a drinking water crisis as pipelines are damaged by...

Plastic waste polluting our rivers

The World Environment Day celebration on 5 June this year was hosted by India this year. With this year's theme being 'Ban plastic pollution',...

Sold to the highest bidder

Monday Musing There are four kinds of voters in Arunachal: first are those people who take money to vote, in the second category are those...

Taking rivers away from people

Monday Musing The NHPC Ltd has finally won a decade-long legal battle over the construction of its ambitious 2000 mw Subansiri lower hydroelectric project (SLHP)...

Live life off the wall

Monday Musing Dear readers, let me begin with wishing everyone a very happy new year. May you all have a wonderful and prosperous year ahead. Hope...

The mysterious cases of missing files

Instances of government files disappearing mysteriously surface time and again in many departments in the state; but such cases often go unreported and die...

Saving the queen bee

Monday Musing In a democracy, it's too early to celebrate or grieve over anything, be it electoral success or failure. The wild jubilation of the Bharatiya...

Smoke and mirrors

Monday Musing 'I must search for wisdom every hour, Deep in my wrathful bosom sore and raw, And find in it the superhuman power To hold me to...

A rice bag once fell from the sky on a town that had no...

Monday Musing Border towns are far and difficult to reach, and even seasoned travellers, ignorant yet accustomed to myriad tales, are kept wondering at the...

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...

Technology’s shady underbelly

Easy and inexpensive access to technology, coupled with the Jio revolution, has resulted in a drastic increase in the number of users over the...