Woes of teacher shortage
Monday Musing
Teacher shortage in schools in the state, especially in remote and far-flung areas, continues to be a worrying issue that has been affecting...
Segregating the deserving
Monday Musing
Attending the 76th Independence Day celebration at Dera Natung Government College in Itanagar, I hastily scanned the state awards' list. Finding a lone...
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...
Incubation of corruption
Monday Musing
At a time when the entire world is grappling with a deep economic crisis in the face of a ravaging global pandemic, the...
Duty, responsibility and fire mishaps
How many fire mishaps occurred in the state during the month of January this year? I know it is a bit of an awkward...
Time to reassess and rejuvenate
A petition challenging the validity of Article 35A is causing restlessness in the troubled state of Jammu & Kashmir. The article bars outsiders from...
Submitting to toxic masculinity
A group of women were having a conversation. With all the chattering and sounds of laughter, anybody overhearing them could without any doubt tell...
Practice self-restraint, become Covid volunteers
Monday Musing
Arunachal Pradesh witnessed a receding trend in the raging coronavirus cases with the state recording 402 people who recovered from the Covid-19 disease...
Mongolia: exploring the enigmatic land
Monday Musing
Since childhood, I had a burning desire to visit Mongolia, the world's largest landlocked country. Besides its enigmatic beauty, the fact that most...
INAL: Let’s football!
Monday Musing
The Golden Jubilee Stadium in Yupia erupted into wild celebration with ground-shaking, rumbling roars from football fans when Omang Dodum - a home...
A play with many acts
The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has been garnering attention for all the wrong reasons ever since it held the preliminaries of the Arunachal...
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...
Demand for ADCs in Arunachal
Monday Musing
Governor KT Parnaik recently concluded his visit to Tirap, Changlang and Longding (TCL) districts, and on the sidelines of his tour, the people...
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...
Bromide and platitude
The National Press Day celebration last Friday was one of the best we've had in years. The presence of so many journalists from different...
A trip to Mechukha
Monday Musing
I visited picturesque Mechukha for the first time in the 2011, when there was a Northeast riders' meet. At that time, it was...
The fallacy of DoTCL
Monday Musing
The department of Tirap and Changlang (DoTC) was created in the year 2003 (Longding district was later included in 2017) to address the...
The mysterious cases of missing files
Instances of government files disappearing mysteriously surface time and again in many departments in the state; but such cases often go unreported and die...
IVLP: Living the American dream
Monday Musing
Agree with me or not, I had my own reasons for being superstitious at the time, which was the reason that I confided...
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...