Two faces of controversy
Monday Musing
When reports of the transfer of former chief secretary (CS) Satya Gopal to Delhi started coming in, the people of the state on...
Rising unemployment and corruption
Monday Musing
One of my friends has been trying for a government job for the past many years and religiously fills up application forms whenever...
Two pennies’ worth
Monday Musing
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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...
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....
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...
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 the State Entrepreneurship Act working?
As the number of the state's educated unemployed people is increasing day by day, the avenues of income for the upcoming generation are becoming...
Rationalization of teachers
Monday Musing
Even though Arunachal Pradesh is doing its best in the education sector, it has been observed that government policies received a setback due...
Relevance of Nehru and his ideology
Monday Musing
In the month of July, as the US forces started to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban militants started to take over the country...
A relatable addiction
Monday Musing
Don't know whether it was the same for everyone, or if it was just the school that I went to, but the most...
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...
Hydropower: Balancing development and ecological fragility
Monday Musing
In September 2017, the NITI Aayog CEO, after famously taking a chopper ride, announced a 10,000 MW hydropower project in the Siang river....
A king without a kingdom
Monday Musing
The euphoria prevailing at the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Vivek Vihar, Itanagar, says it all: the ruling party is still...
Time to reclaim our history
Monday Musing
A few years ago, a friend from Delhi wanted to send me stuff and asked me to share my surface mail address. As...
Tribal identity caught between saffronisation & Christianisation
Monday Musing
On 22 January, on my way back home from a morning walk, I saw a school van with children as young as five...
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...
Time to stop manmade disasters
Monday Musing
Merely two hours of heavy downpour of 40 millimetres was enough to wreak havoc in Itanagar and Naharlagun, leaving trails of destruction, on...
New hope for cancer patients
As per the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) population-based cancer registry's 2011-14 data, Arunachal Pradesh has registered about 2,500 cancer cases, with Papum...
Walking a tightrope
Monday Musing
Nobody would have thought that Pema Khandu, who led the BJP to a convincing win in the 2019 election as the chief ministerial...
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...