look what i found!!

this is my first (the only) post from the aborted blog...

"For beginners, AP is Arunachal Pradesh. A quiet state of India. One might confuse it with Andhra Pradesh, a more famous and newsworthier part of the nation. But that's okay because the definitive guide to Arunachal Pradesh, henceforth AP, is here.

You would locate AP at the top of the Indian territory on the right which is attached to the mainland by a very thin strip of land. This territory, lumped together in the media as the North-East, or N-E, comprises of many small tribes of the Mongoloid stock - with only our snub noses in common. More on this later.

Coming back to AP, as with the name that was given to us by a dead Prime Minister, much of what we are, has not been of our choosing. We didn't choose to be part of India (not that we would have exercised our choice, given an option), we didn't choose to be isolated for many years after the independence of India, and we also didn't choose the rapid pace of development that followed this quarantine. As we finally come into our own, lots of wrong turns have already been taken. Even now, our choices are mostly uneducated and mad.

The next couple of decades are going to be crucial to our existence and identity. For me, muddled as my personal identity is (Indian? Arunachali? Chinky? Tribal? Non-Christian? Non-Hindu? Beef-eater? Exotica? Curio? Suspect no.1?), the future of AP - growth or disintegration, is object of both cold interest and desperate prayers. This blog is my attempt to understand what’s going on, what’s going wrong, what can be salvaged, and what needs to be trashed. Let’s say, I’m formulating the Grand Plan of Change.

I invite everyone, who have dropped by for whatever reasons, to join me in my own tilt at the windmills."