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The Siang Is Swallowing Their Fields — And Borguli’s Farmers Are Running Out of Time

The Siang Is Swallowing Their Fields — And Borguli’s Farmers Are Running Out of Time

The river doesn’t ask permission. It just takes. That’s the hard truth residents of Borguli village in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang district are living with every monsoon season. The Siang River — mighty, relentless, and increasingly unpredictable — has been gnawing away at farmland across several villages under Mebo Sub-Division, and locals say the situation … Read more

The Siang Is Eating Their Fields — And Nobody’s Stopped It Yet

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Every monsoon, the Siang River takes a little more. This year, it took a lot. A Threat That Comes Every Year Without Fail Officials from the district administration and the Water Resources Department arrived at Borguli village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Mebo Sub-Division on August 3 to see the damage for themselves. What they found wasn’t … Read more