The Siang Is Swallowing Mebo — And Farmers Are Running Out of Time

The river doesn’t wait. And for the farming families of Mebo subdivision, that brutal truth has never felt more real. Severe erosion by the Siang river at the Borguli portion in East Siang district has taken an alarming turn, devouring several acres of wetland cultivation and leaving local farmers staring at the ruins of a … Read more

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

When the Village Elder Becomes the Law’s First Ally: Leparada Trains Its GBs on Legal Rights

Sixty-three village heads walked into a room in Basar not knowing much about victim compensation schemes or civil court acts — and walked out as potential pillars of justice for their communities. Bridging the Gap Between Law Books and Village Life The Leparada District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), working alongside the district administration, held a … Read more

Shots Fired, Village Head Taken: The Assam-Arunachal Border Flashpoint That No One Can Ignore

A village head gets detained. Shots are fired. One person lies injured. And once again, the old wound between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh bleeds open. A Fence That Sparked a Fire It started, as these things so often do, with something that seemed almost routine — a group of Mishing people from Assam arriving at … Read more