Need for trade routes in Arunachal

Monday Musing After the Centre's decision in February this year to discontinue the free movement regime (FMR) due to growing security concerns and illicit trafficking...

Migration season for politicians has arrived

Monday Musing As the election season nears, the migration of leaders from one political party to another is starting in the state. In recent days,...

Word to the wordsmiths, with a smile and a wink

It's easy, after reading a dozen novels, to decide to become a writer. But getting down to the brass tacks of the job and...

Alcoholism and Arunachal

Arunachal's culture encourages imbibing alcohol without much reservation against it. Offering apong to guests is a unique tribal custom which is little known...

Untold stories of sportspersons and associations

Monday Musing We feel so proud of our athletes when they win on big stages and bring glory to the state and the nation. In the...

Why do our languages die?

Monday Musing While en route to Naharlagun from the Guwahati airport on a Sky One chopper, I was struck by a three-year-old toddler speaking with...

Will the greenfield project ever take off?

Will the greenfield airport project in Hollongi ever take off? This is the million-dollar question of every Arunachali at the moment. The state government on...

Are we turning into a pessimistic society?

Monday Musing With the surrender and subsequent formal arrest of former capital DC Talo Potom in connection with the suicide death of Gomchu Yekar, the...

Govt schemes, research and tourism

Arunachal Pradesh, being a developing state and a late starter, needs effective coordination between various departments for implementation of flagship programmes of both the...

Democracy bleeds

Monday Musing From a national political perspective, getting off with 10 unopposed elected MLAs is a mammoth political score, as the electoral game has just...

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...

Avoiding delay of justice in child abuse cases

Despite the existence of strong laws, crimes against children in the state are rampant, while on the other hand the conviction rate in such...

On responsible feminism

Monday Musing People who have small children know how outright they speak their minds and how brutally honest they can be. The other day, after all...

Hard work produces heroes

It is a sad fact that Arunachal Pradesh has in recent times not been able to produce champion athletes of international standards who can...

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...

The shrinking park that was ours once

They say that power corrupts, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. No one knows it better than the BJP, the party in power in Arunachal,...

Who would bear Arunachal’s burden?

Monday Musing Barely days after union Law & Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju's divulgement of the Centre's plan to relocate the Chakma-Hajong (CH) refugees from Arunachal,...

Rejuvenate industrial estates

Flights Of Fantasy Hamara Arunachal is the largest state in the Northeast and also one of the least developed industrialised states of the country. Despite...

The Batti Project: Lighting Arunachal one batti at a time

While the country is gearing up for the elections, the team of ‘Further and Beyond’ are working towards raising funds for ‘The Batti Project’...

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...