Leaving behind children with learning disabilities
Monday Musing
My professor has been tutoring some schoolchildren between the ages of 6 and 14. Their families belong to the lower income group.
One day,...
Living on your own
Monday Musing
There will come a time when many of us who have lived sheltered lives with our families will have to finally step out...
Heroes of 1962 war & Olympics double gold medallist Lt Col Haripal Kaushik
Flights Of Fantasy
Many Arunachali old-timers recall the 1962 Sino-India conflict with fear and anger. The Chinese forces entered deep into Arunachal Pradesh along many...
Crimes against women
Monday Musing
"When we hear about the incidents of rape, our heads hang in shame," Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in his first Independence...
A division over null and void demand
Monday Musing
Arunachal as a society has never been divided like it is now over the phrase 'null and void', ever since the Arunachal Pradesh...
Cabin fever
Monday Musing
They wring you out from within - the gathering uncertainties - till all the things you cared about, all the rose-tinted dreams you...
My journey with the Times
Monday Musing
I joined this daily as a proofreader in 1999. Since I didn't have the basic knowledge of journalism, I struggled with my job...
Cocktail blues
At about 6:30 in the morning, the bus turns around the last bend on the road on the Assam side, and lumbers slowly upto...
Homestay operation: A win-win business
Monday Musing
When one speaks of places to visit in Arunachal, Roing and Anini are two names that will surely make it to the list,...
Taking rivers away from people
Monday Musing
The NHPC Ltd has finally won a decade-long legal battle over the construction of its ambitious 2000 mw Subansiri lower hydroelectric project (SLHP)...
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...
A short stay home for children
Sishu Bhavan is a short stay home for children run by the Missionaries of Charity in Naharlagun. Right now, there are 17 children between...
Mega dam, mega damage
Monday Musing
Mega dams have always been criticised by experts because of their negative and immitigable environmental and social impacts. You build mega dams, there...
Is RSS commanding influence in Arunachal policy decisions?
Is the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing nationalist organization and ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dictating terms to the...
Smoke and mirrors
Monday Musing
'I must search for wisdom every hour,
Deep in my wrathful bosom sore and raw,
And find in it the superhuman power
To hold me to...
The ‘No cash’ crisis
Much hue and cry was witnessed in the past couple of weeks following a sudden shortage of cash in the capital complex and other...
Crushed mountains, fractured highways
Monday Musing
It's that time of the year when land starts falling apart, torn by human interventions and the pressure of monsoon rains, visuals of...
Watching ‘Neverland’
As a kid growing up in the ‘80s, I was, like millions across the globe, a star-struck Michael Jackson fan. As if mirroring Wade...
Time to go tough on drugs menace
It is said that sharing is caring. But what happens when a teacher does not hesitate to ask his pupil to share some tobacco...
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...