Is the SIT serving its purpose?

(Monday Musing) They say that to provide impartial and efficient police service, safeguarding the interests of the people and making the police force a professionally...

Human-elephant conflicts

The elephant population in Arunachal Pradesh has remarkably increased from 890 in 2012 to 1,614 in 2017. As per the elephant census report of...

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...

Apropos nothing

Monday Musing Jeremy has spoken On balance, envy is often mixed with admiration and inspiration, but jealousy? That, my friend, is a self-destructive emotion. My advice:...

Tread carefully on anti-conversion law

Monday Musing On 30 September, the two judges of the Gauhati High Court (Itanagar bench) ordered the state government to finalise the draft rules of...

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...

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...

Bohemian rhapsody: The case for irony

Monday Musing There are two kinds of people who use irony to devastating effect: those who have a sense of humour, and those who don't. Witty...

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...

From the hallowed grounds

Monday Musing The Arunachal Pradesh Raj Bhavan has seen some interesting occupants in recent years. Of course Gen JJ Singh undoubtedly was the most popular governor....

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...

Trekking the seven lakes

Monday Musing Once considered to be the most difficult district to live in and travel to, Dibang Valley is the new big thing in Arunachal's...

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,...

Accidents and blood money

It is that time of the month when my turn to pen down 'Monday Musing' has arrived, and this time the events of the...

The saga of political instability

Though nothing is being stated officially, the political circle of the state is abuzz with the possibility of yet another political coup. No one...

Inaction continues as drug menace thrives

Monday Musing The state government had allocated Rs 10 crore in the last budget for modernizing drug de-addiction centres across Arunachal Pradesh. The budget session for...

Lack of parking sense and space

Monday Musing Ever since the earthcutting process began for the construction of the four-lane highway in the Capital, there has been a drastic dearth of...

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....

Seed of positivity

Monday Musing This pandemic situation that we are facing together globally has, in more ways than one, taught all of us many life lessons. This...

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,...