No Signal, No Road, No Hope: The Forgotten Villages of Taksing and Limeking

While the rest of India debates borders and satellite imagery, the people living closest to those very borders can’t even send a WhatsApp message. Taksing and Limeking circles in Upper Subansiri district have been making headlines lately — but only for Chinese intrusion. What the cameras miss, and what the headlines rarely mention, is the … Read more

Arunachal Double Tragedy: Four Dead at Road Site, Five Soldiers Still Missing as Monsoon Tears Through the State

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The rains did not care that it was Independence Day eve. On Friday evening, as the rest of India prepared for flag-hoisting ceremonies, Arunachal Pradesh was being swallowed — roads buried, shelters washed away, men gone. In two separate incidents triggered by heavy monsoon downpours, four people lost their lives in a landslide and five … Read more

Daporijo Loses Its Guardian: Revered Nyibu Gogiam Gumja Tamin No More

Daporijo Loses Its Guardian: Revered Nyibu Gogiam Gumja Tamin No More

When a nyibu passes, it is not just a man who is lost — it is a living library that shuts its doors forever. Gogiam Gumja Tamin, one of the most respected traditional priests and community pillars of the Tagin people in Upper Subansiri, breathed his last on Thursday, July 30, after battling a prolonged … Read more

When Roads Fail, Helicopters Don’t: Arunachal Airlifts Life to Stranded Villages in Upper Subansiri

When Roads Fail, Helicopters Don't: Arunachal Airlifts Life to Stranded Villages in Upper Subansiri

When the monsoon swallowed the roads whole, the sky became the only way in. The Arunachal Pradesh administration took to the air on Wednesday, July 22, airlifting essential relief materials to flood-battered villages in Upper Subansiri district after relentless monsoon rains tore through roads and bridges, leaving remote communities completely cut off from the outside … Read more