Inter-school sports fest a breath of fresh air
Monday Musing
The recently held Inter-School District Sports Fest in Lower Dibang Valley (LDV) felt like a breath of fresh air and a much needed...
Nyigam: An example of courage and toil
Your backache is going to get worse, said my travelling companion, reluctant to take me along as she made plans for a visit to...
Devil’s advocate
Monday Musing
Well, at least two different entities are killing it right now for different reasons: life insurance salesmen on TV, who are using 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...
Climate change: Impact & expectation
Monday Musing
The climate change and global warming caused by the rat race of human civilization in the name of development have posed a serious...
Shooting prices, falling sales
Monday Musing
The stiff rise in the prices of vegetables in the markets of the capital complex in the recent past put the consumers' budgets...
Swimming with the sharks
Barely a week after the passing of the Arunachal Pradesh Money Lending Regulation Bill, a group of women money lenders scrambled to the press...
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...
In search of better opportunities
Monday Musing
Aonong (name changed), a 30-year-old woman from a remote village in Arunachal, presently working at a mall in New Delhi, has not been...
For an Atmanirbhar Arunachal
Monday Musing
The nation is currently celebrating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 71st birthday starting 17 September with various activities, like river clean-up drives, blood-donation campaigns,...
Orchids: Beautiful, mysterious, vulnerable
Monday Musing
Did you know that there is a species of orchid known as Schoenorchis mishmensis, named after the Mishmi Hills of Lower Dibang Valley...
Uncertain times ahead
Monday Musing
The Indian state has militarized Assam, following protests against the amended Citizenship Act (CA).
Six people are reported dead in police firing and at...
Where will the flags go?
Monday Musing
My nephew has been using my aged car lately. Him being a busy young man, I rarely see him or the car. But...
Housefires
Monday Musing
Housefire is one of the worst manmade disasters. It causes irreversible damages. Apart from property losses, the affected people suffer from hopelessness, shock,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The last rite
Meet Joseph Laye, an enterprising and hard working young man, a rarity in the state where many young and not-so-young men bully and extort...