SUMP: Will the govt listen to villagers’ cry?
Monday Musing
The chief minister's office on Saturday said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Riga villagers and the state government...
Shaking the state’s conscience
Monday Musing
The recent child prostitution and human trafficking racket unravelled by the Itanagar police, involving five minor victims, has deeply shaken the state's conscience....
Tales of prisoners of war: Naik Balwant Singh Bisht
Flights Of Fantasy
Many Arunachalee old-timers recall the 1962 Sino-India conflict with fear and anger. The Chinese forces entered deep into Arunachal Pradesh along many...
A trip to Mechukha
Monday Musing
I visited picturesque Mechukha for the first time in the 2011, when there was a Northeast riders' meet. At that time, it was...
For a country sans hate speech
Monday Musing
People of our country are familiar with hate speech, particularly during election period. People do not recall such hate speeches after the election...
A chasm in education
Monday Musing
Ever since the nationwide lockdown was enforced in India, parents are wrestling with a conundrum between sending their wards to schools amid paranoia...
APST women: Identity and gender inequality
The status of a child born to an Arunachal Pradesh Scheduled Tribe (APST) woman and a non-APST man has been challenged time and again...
From bad to worse
Travelling on NH 415 between Itanagar and Naharlagun has become a nightmare for the capital's dwellers, and it seems that there will be no...
Summing up the pandemic
Monday Musing
Being a mother in the time of the Covid-19 lockdown is no child's play. While others complain of boredom, we are only tired...
Four months since you said two months
Monday Musing
In the past three months, we have written a little over 10 times about the four-lane road construction in the capital region. During...
Digital dependency
Monday Musing
Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu, who was on a three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh, desperately felt the need for generating awareness...
We all need a Gwan-sik
Monday Musing
The one thing that has women (and probably some men too) all over the world craving for right now is most definitely the...
The price of a pandemic
Monday Musing
Since 1 September, the government of Arunachal has imposed testing fees for Covid-19 statewide at all government-run facilities.
Whoever is tested will have to...
Is AAPSU a waning pan-Arunachal entity?
Monday Musing
As the music's blaring crescendo fell, it was overlapped by colourful roadshow dances presented by the supporters and cheerleaders, donning their respective candidates'...
Time to resolve interstate boundary disputes
Monday Musing
The pact signed between Assam and Meghalaya to resolve their decades-old boundary disputes in six of the 12 disputed areas is indeed a...
Survival of the fittest
Monday Musing
When Charles Darwin came up with his theory of the 'survival of the fittest', he most certainly knew that the human race was...
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...
Don’t let money culture win the race yet again
Monday Musing
As the election nears, the issue of money culture is once again becoming a hot topic in the state. Literally, every sitting MLA...
CBI in the news for wrong reasons
Monday Musing
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) - the agency investigating the discrepancies in the examinations conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission...
Bohemian rhapsody: The case for irony
Monday Musing
There are two kinds of people who use irony to devastating effect: those who have a sense of humour, and those who don't.
Witty...