The fate of one of the most ambitious — and most debated — infrastructure projects in Northeast India now rests on a single document. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said loud and clear on September 29 that the proposed Siang Upper Multi-Purpose Project, known as SUMP, will not move an inch forward unless the … Read more
The Siang River has flowed through the heart of Arunachal Pradesh for centuries — feeding farms, sustaining cultures, and binding the Adi people to their ancestral land. Now, a proposed mega-dam threatens to bury all of that under hundreds of metres of water. And the people who call this valley home are not going quietly. … Read more
The Brahmaputra doesn’t lie. When it swells and swallows villages whole, when mountain springs in Arunachal go dry in the middle of summer, when farmers watch their fields drown one season and crack from drought the next — that is not a weather story. That is a climate crisis, and it is arriving faster than … Read more
The rivers don’t send warnings. They just rise — and right now, they’re rising faster than help can reach. ‘The Hills Are Sinking’ — Arunachal Battered Again Five districts of Arunachal Pradesh woke up to fresh flooding in the last 24 hours, barely recovering from the previous wave of destruction. According to the State Emergency … Read more
