Destination Mechukha: A painter’s delight
Monday Musing
Someone once said, "It's not about the destination; it's about the journey", but sometimes, it is about the destination, especially if the destination...
Has the Centre given up on land captured by China?
Monday Musing
Recently, when a report of the Chinese constructing a new village in Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal made headlines in the national media,...
Silent bystanders
Monday Musing
"He pulled her by the hair and dragged her to the end of the road, and then he kicked her in the stomach."
This...
Drug menace: Isn’t it enough to wake the state’s collective conscience?
Monday Musing
The recent arrest of a government official from the civil secretariat in Itanagar reveals that the drug menace has infiltrated the state's highest...
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...
Passing notions
Monday Musing
The curious case of Quinton de Kock
When South Africa's wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock refused to 'take the knee' prior to his team's Pool...
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,...
A decade in journalism
Monday Musing
As 2021 is dragging its feet towards its fag end, yours truly has scribbled down his personal experience in journalism for the last...
Cost of systemic healthcare failure
Monday Musing
Recently, a 45-year-old woman died at the community health centre (CHC) in Kimin in Papum Pare district in the absence of an emergency...
Panchayat season has arrived
Monday Musing
With the announcement of the BJP's official candidates for the panchayat elections and for the municipal corporations of Pasighat and Itanagar, the other...
Arunachal Lit Fest- a way forward
The department of Information and Public Relation, govt of Arunachal Pradesh organized the Arunachal Lit Fest 2018 in Itanagar from Nov 28-30.
Three-day event was...
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...
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...
Mr Sinha’s beautiful dreams
It was probably just as well that the press was not invited to the ATAL Conclave organised by the state government at the state...
A flooded hill town
Monday Musing
Once, Itanagar was a beautiful town with trees on both sides of the roads, a two-lane road that had potholes but did not...
Is RT-PCR machine reliable?
Monday Musing
Going by data from the Covid-19 bulletin, which is updated every evening by the directorate of health services, the reports from three districts...
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...
Better prepared roads can withstand monsoon disasters
Monday Musing
The arrival of monsoon every year leaves a trail of death and devastation in the entire Northeast region. Rivers swell up and flood...
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...
Unmasking corruption: A closer look
Monday Musing
Starting from the APPSC scam, our state has been witnessing a continuous unfolding of similar cases of nepotism and cash-for-job scandals in recent...