Valentine’s Day: a slice for all

Monday Musing Dear readers, before anything else, let us give ourselves a pat on our backs to have survived a pandemic. With such a negative...

Chinese democracy ?

Arunachal Pradesh requires a term of its own to define adult franchise and democracy as seen during elections in the state. The election fervour...

Overcoming crisis by doing nothing

Monday Musing This is probably the first time in human history that we are trying to overcome a humanitarian crisis by staying indoors and doing...

Causes and effects

Monday Musing Religious intolerance Even as Karnakata's hijab row is yet to die down, another disturbing report emanated from Uttar Pradesh. This time, a school in...

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...

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...

Tiger trouble in Mayudia

Monday Musing In March 2025, a report was published in this daily about a tiger captured on a camera trap in the Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary...

The things we least deserve

Technical institutes such as the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) and the National Institute of Technology (NIT) are precious assets...

Money-driven elections

Monday Musing It should not be a matter of discussion that money plays a key role in elections. As we all know by now, money...

Tangled up in traffic troubles

Monday Musing As Monday approaches, the capital's dwellers brace themselves up for the agonizing time they have to face while getting on the road for...

The journey of last decade

Monday Musing The BJP government has completed eight years in office in Delhi. It is time to reflect on the impact of the saffron party...

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...

Drug menace: Synergy between govt agencies and NGOs need of the hour

Monday Musing In 2021, the state government launched a series of activities in its war against the drug menace. The government found itself in a...

Arunachalis spent more time on unpaid activities in 2024

Monday Musing Curious about how the people of Arunachal Pradesh spent their time in 2024? Here is a brief report. They spent more time on...

Decades of disparity and deprivation

Monday Musing The departmental promotion of inspectors as deputy superintendents or assistant commandants in the three different units of the Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP) -...

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...

POCSO Act: Implications and punishment

Monday Musing The one kind of post unarguably common in everyone's social media feed has to be the ones that are asking for help to...

Of weak political and bureaucratic leadership

Monday Musing The lockdown of the Itanagar capital region has been extended upto 3 August. The capital-specific lockdown was imposed first on 6 July, when...

A letter to the Raj Bhavan

A mother from Kra Daadi wrote a letter to Governor BD Mishra, stating that a man, who she owed money, has sold her daughter...

Tage Hailyang (07/02/1997)

Monday Musing I saw a portrait of smiling Hailyang. Was it a pic taken on his wedding, or last Myoko? The women surrounding the kitchen. This must...