How long will NE people suffer from racial abuse?

Monday Musing Students from the Northeastern states go to different cities in the country to pursue higher education with oceans of dreams, while some leave...

Stranded in transit

Monday Musing For a large number of people residing in Changlang, travelling to capital Itanagar has become an ordeal. Public transport is infrequent, poorly maintained...

A castle for every tribe

Arunachal now is no longer Arunachal then. Our state was born with five districts, named after the mighty rivers Kameng, Subansiri, Siang, Dibang, Lohit...

Two pennies’ worth

Monday Musing 1. It's true. People on Twitter are different from those on Facebook. I speak in the context of Arunachal, of course. It's true. I'm a...

Apropos nothing

Monday Musing Jeremy has spoken On balance, envy is often mixed with admiration and inspiration, but jealousy? That, my friend, is a self-destructive emotion. My advice:...

Memoir of a little-known journalist

Monday Musing The other day, when one of my journalist colleagues reminded me about my retirement age, which is approaching nearer, it came as a...

Is RSS commanding influence in Arunachal policy decisions?

Is the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing nationalist organization and ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dictating terms to the...

How serious are we about improving mental health facilities in our state?

Monday Musing A month ago, a man in a village went to one of his relative's house to attend a wedding feast. He came home...

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...

My tryst with cooking

Monday Musing Dear readers, the one thing that any living being cannot live without, besides oxygen, is most definitely food. As for me, if given...

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...

Pay heed to workers’ genuine demands

Monday Musing PHED&WS staffers have been seeking job regularisation for many years and recently, under the umbrella of the All Arunachal Pradesh Public Health Engineering...

Dissipation

Monday Musing "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic...

No relief for riot-affected shop owners

Almost four months after massive damages were caused to Takar Complex, the oldest commercial building in Naharlagun, during the anti-Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) riots...

Reassess indiscriminate issue of licenses for wood based industries

Monday Musing Indiscriminate issuing of license for wood based industries in the state needs to be checked to protect our pristine forest resources which are...

One winter evening in Siang

Monday Musing The warmth near the fireplace in a traditional home is not only soothing during cold winter evenings but also very reassuring. There is...

Alone with social media

Monday Musing I received 27 individual and group text messages on WhatsApp and Instagram yesterday, and a phone call from my mother. On my part, I...

Momo Aunties: turning challenges into opportunities

Monday Musing It will not at all be dramatic to say that while food nourishes the body, good food nourishes the soul. And when it...

On maintaining equilibrium

Monday Musing "If all the beasts are gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens...

Siang at a crossroads

Monday Musing   While the revered Tibetan spiritual head, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has not specifically spoken about hydropower, he has often talked about the...