Mebo’s Youth Finally Have a Unified Voice — And They Mean Business

The Mebo area of East Siang finally has something it has long needed — a formal, unified platform where its young people can speak in one voice. On September 18, the Mebo Area Yameng Kebang, or MAYK, was officially constituted, bringing together youth representatives from villages spanning the stretch from Bodak to Mer and Sigar … Read more

He Kept the Lights On for 38 Years. A Faulty Pole in the Dark Took His Life.

There is something quietly devastating about the way Baramdeo Pandit died — alone, high up on an electricity pole, in the middle of a Sunday night, trying to restore power to villages that probably didn’t even know he was out there. The 57-year-old electrician, posted at the Mebo Power Sub-Station in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang … Read more

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

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