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...

Faultline of Arunachal society exposed

Monday Musing The events of the past month have exposed a deep faultline in Arunachal society. It all started with the unfortunate death of 22-year-old...

Rising unemployment and corruption

Monday Musing One of my friends has been trying for a government job for the past many years and religiously fills up application forms whenever...

POCSO Act: Implications and punishment

Monday Musing The one kind of post unarguably common in everyone's social media feed has to be the ones that are asking for help to...

A ticking bomb waiting to explode

Monday Musing The formation of three natural dams on the Yorlung-Tsangpo river in Tibet has created panic among the people downstream in Arunachal Pradesh. As...

The real fight begins

Monday Musing Whenever a new vaccine is rolled out, new misconceptions and rumours about the vaccine do the rounds. Myths associated with vaccines sometimes cause...

Skeletons in our closets

Monday Musing Some of the most interesting things to watch on television these days, other than the screaming and shouting wannabes of reality shows, are...

Declining freedom of Press in India

Monday Musing The sharp fall in press freedom in India speaks volume about the sorry state-of-affairs in the functioning of media in the country today. The...

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...

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...

Lada-Sarli Frontier Highway: A scar runs deep along LAC

Monday Musing They say that where money flows, corruption shadows its path. The land compensation scams in the Trans-Arunachal Highway and the Frontier Highway projects...

Infrastructure key to development of sports

Monday Musing On nearly every important sports occasion, the people at the helm of affairs talk about abundant talents of the youths of the state...

‘Unspoken words’ inspire young poets to speak up 

Monday Musing Poetry does magic with its sublime words; so does art, to those who have a taste for it. Many great poets have translated...

How serious are we about improving mental health facilities in our state?

Monday Musing A month ago, a man in a village went to one of his relative's house to attend a wedding feast. He came home...

Back to square one

Monday Musing When the APPSC paper leakage scam hit the state, there was a huge uproar against the corrupt practice in the state. A genuine...

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...

SUMP: Will the govt listen to villagers’ cry?

Monday Musing The chief minister's office on Saturday said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Riga villagers and the state government...

A letter to the Raj Bhavan

A mother from Kra Daadi wrote a letter to Governor BD Mishra, stating that a man, who she owed money, has sold her daughter...

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...

An experience to remember: IFJ World Congress

Monday Musing For a small town boy, representing the country in an international forum like IFJ's World Congress was indeed a dream come true for...