Tawang gets year-round road access as the Sela Tunnel opens to traffic
The Sela Tunnel, a 13-kilometre twin-tube passage carved beneath the 13,700-foot Sela Pass, opened to civilian…
Arunachal’s apple belt bets on kiwi as warming winters bite
In the orchards around Ziro, where winter fog used to be thick enough to touch, growers…
Ziro Valley’s Apatani paddy fields seek UNESCO recognition
The Apatani people of the Ziro valley cultivate rice in a system so precise it has…
Arunachal’s Siang river valley opens a new circuit of village homestays
The new highway along the Siang river, still being finished in places, has already changed the…
The Tawang monastery’s 400 years: a border town’s spiritual and strategic weight
The Tawang monastery, Asia’s second-largest, marked 400 years with a week of prayer, masked dances and…
The Dong tribe’s solar experiment: power for Arunachal’s most remote valley
Dong, the village that claims India’s first sunrise, is running a quiet experiment: a micro-grid of…
Arunachal’s tribal councils meet the 21st century: digitising customary law
The kebang and nyeder councils of Arunachal’s tribes, which have settled village disputes for centuries, are…
The Idu Mishmi’s sacred groves: how Arunachal’s forests keep their own laws
The Idu Mishmi people of the Dibang valley hold certain forests sacred — places where hunting,…
Arunachal’s orchid belt: the state with 500 species wants a living garden
Arunachal Pradesh’s forests hold more than 500 species of orchid — a fifth of India’s total…
The Monpas of Tawang: border villagers between two worlds
For the Monpa people of Tawang, the India–China border is not an abstraction: it runs through…