No respite from the demon

Monday Musing The death of any family member can have a devastating impact on the family. It can cause intense pain and heartache. This morning, 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...

The plight of state’s small tea growers

Monday Musing Tea plantation is one of the primary and reliable sources of livelihood for the people of our state. A number of people in...

The scourge of bandh culture

Monday Musing The three days bandh call which initially started in ICR and later spread to some other districts of the state has ended peacefully...

Crushed mountains, fractured highways

Monday Musing It's that time of the year when land starts falling apart, torn by human interventions and the pressure of monsoon rains, visuals of...

Poor state of RFG College

Monday Musing Established in 1996, the Rang-Frah Government College (RFGC) was the lone government institute of higher education in the entire Changlang district till recently. For...

The sports policy of Arunachal Pradesh

The sports policy of the state has finally been notified. The vision is to make Arunachal Pradesh a vibrant and leading state in the...

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...

Need for a change

The recent incident of stealing of dustbins and parklets from various locations in Itanagar is shameful. In fact, the persons who committed the crime...

An equal music

Monday Musing Whenever any guest arrives at our home and sees my husband working in the kitchen, it is like they have seen a ghost...

Meet your candidates

Dibang, Lohit and Namsai Monday Musing   The upcoming general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh, is all set to witness a total of 143...

Dismal state of freedom, need for law on journalist safety

From the time the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA Government came into power, the Hindu-right wings could be ominously seen resurrecting; imposing radical...

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...

The NERIST unrest

The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) took centre stage this past week. When we first followed the story of the NERIST...

We cannot allow our languages to be consumed by Hindi

For any democracy to grow, there needs to be healthy debates among its citizens on issues concerning the citizens. Over the years, since Narendra...

Temporary fixes aren’t enough to solve the perennial water shortage in the ICR

Monday Musing   With the arrival of the monsoon, the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) begins to face a drinking water crisis as pipelines are damaged by...

A lament for my passion

Monday Musing Journalism has been my passion ever since I started learning the core values of this profession. I proudly drove around on my bike...

A cult hero called Taro Chatung

Monday Musing In the mid '90s, a sensation called Taro Chatung took the state by storm. When the watch or clock showed 6 pm, the...

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...

Nurture youth and their entrepreneurial spirit

Monday Musing In the last two decades Arunachal witnessed several ministers wooing investors from other parts of the country and abroad to invest in this...