Need for a change
The recent incident of stealing of dustbins and parklets from various locations in Itanagar is shameful. In fact, the persons who committed the crime...
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...
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...
Dissipation
Monday Musing
"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic...
My Covid-19 experience
Monday Musing
On 8 September, I started feeling unwell. I had severe body pain, fever, and cough. Immediately, I went for a rapid antigen test...
Burn after reading
Monday Musing
When we reached the cell, the stench hit me like a gale: a miasma of faeces, urine and cigarette and beedi butts pooled...
Drug menace: Synergy between govt agencies and NGOs need of the hour
Monday Musing
In 2021, the state government launched a series of activities in its war against the drug menace. The government found itself in a...
Why so serious? (12-26 August, 2022)
Monday Musing
I can tell you right now that once you come under the media's scanner, it won't take us long to find out almost...
Decades of disparity and deprivation
Monday Musing
The departmental promotion of inspectors as deputy superintendents or assistant commandants in the three different units of the Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP) -...
Festival of democracy with a twist
Monday Musing
In a parliamentary form of government, elections are considered festivals of democracy. It's about battles of ideologies, ideas, and more so, vision. In...
A step towards social redemption
Revenge system that continues to prevail has been the 'curse of East Kameng district. It hangs like the proverbial sword that everyone is scared...
Plastic waste polluting our rivers
The World Environment Day celebration on 5 June this year was hosted by India this year. With this year's theme being 'Ban plastic pollution',...
Duty, responsibility and fire mishaps
How many fire mishaps occurred in the state during the month of January this year? I know it is a bit of an awkward...
An equal music
Monday Musing
Whenever any guest arrives at our home and sees my husband working in the kitchen, it is like they have seen a ghost...
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...
Saturday at Ambrosia
Monday Musing
Ambrosia restaurant, Laitumkhrah, Shillong. 1991.
Having ordered coffee and pastries, Vicky and I were sitting at a table, smoking cigarettes. I'd borrowed that day's...
Growth drivers for Arunachal
Flights Of Fantasy
Hamara Arunachal... the largest state in the Northeast and also one of the least developed states of the country. Arunachal is one...
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...
Paper leak scam sparks differing opinions
Monday Musing
The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission's (APPSC) paper leak scam, which once appeared to be a 'uniting machine' among the aspirants and student...
When we fail children-II
Monday Musing
In 2021, several people booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act were let off because the police failed to...