Sikkim’s organic mission turns 20: lessons from the world’s first fully organic state
Twenty years after Sikkim banned synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, the world’s first fully organic state is…
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Nathula opens wider: Sikkim’s border trade enters a cautious new phase
The Nathula Pass, where Sikkim meets Tibet at 14,000 feet, added two trading days to its…
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…
The Tipaimukh question: why a dam on the Barak keeps resurfacing in regional politics
The proposed Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river has resurfaced in regional politics, a decade after…
Sikkim’s rooftop solar push: the state that banned plastic bags now targets the grid
Sikkim, which banned plastic bags in 1998 and went fully organic in 2016, has a new…