Need for trade routes in Arunachal
Monday Musing
After the Centre's decision in February this year to discontinue the free movement regime (FMR) due to growing security concerns and illicit trafficking...
Migration season for politicians has arrived
Monday Musing
As the election season nears, the migration of leaders from one political party to another is starting in the state. In recent days,...
Word to the wordsmiths, with a smile and a wink
It's easy, after reading a dozen novels, to decide to become a writer. But getting down to the brass tacks of the job and...
Alcoholism and Arunachal
Arunachal's culture encourages imbibing alcohol without much reservation against it. Offering apong to guests is a unique tribal custom which is little known...
Untold stories of sportspersons and associations
Monday Musing
We feel so proud of our athletes when they win on big stages and bring glory to the state and the nation.
In the...
Why do our languages die?
Monday Musing
While en route to Naharlagun from the Guwahati airport on a Sky One chopper, I was struck by a three-year-old toddler speaking with...
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...
Are we turning into a pessimistic society?
Monday Musing
With the surrender and subsequent formal arrest of former capital DC Talo Potom in connection with the suicide death of Gomchu Yekar, the...
Govt schemes, research and tourism
Arunachal Pradesh, being a developing state and a late starter, needs effective coordination between various departments for implementation of flagship programmes of both the...
Democracy bleeds
Monday Musing
From a national political perspective, getting off with 10 unopposed elected MLAs is a mammoth political score, as the electoral game has just...
Power politics and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
While the district administrations across Aruna-chal Pradesh are busy with disaster preparedness, the ruling BJP seems to have embarked on poll preparedness ahead of...
Avoiding delay of justice in child abuse cases
Despite the existence of strong laws, crimes against children in the state are rampant, while on the other hand the conviction rate in such...
On responsible feminism
Monday Musing
People who have small children know how outright they speak their minds and how brutally honest they can be.
The other day, after all...
Hard work produces heroes
It is a sad fact that Arunachal Pradesh has in recent times not been able to produce champion athletes of international standards who can...
Marriage of traditions
Monday Musing
Marriages are made in heaven - this saying holds so much truth to it. Well, some marriages do make onlookers believe that they...
The shrinking park that was ours once
They say that power corrupts, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
No one knows it better than the BJP, the party in power in Arunachal,...
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,...
Rejuvenate industrial estates
Flights Of Fantasy
Hamara Arunachal is the largest state in the Northeast and also one of the least developed industrialised states of the country. Despite...
The Batti Project: Lighting Arunachal one batti at a time
While the country is gearing up for the elections, the team of ‘Further and Beyond’ are working towards raising funds for ‘The Batti Project’...
Incomplete NH415: A testimony of complacent and irresponsible governance
Monday Musing
Nothing seems to motivate M/s TK Consortium Pvt Ltd, M/s Woodhill Shivam (Joint Venture), or the state government -particularly the state Public Works...