DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka Every language needs two things to survive: speakers who use it and a way to write it down. Kokborok, the mother tongue of the Tripuri community and the most widely spoken tribal language in Tripura, has the first in good measure. On the second, it has remained stuck for
DA Editorial Team India’s rapid digital growth has brought convenience to millions, from instant payments to online services reaching remote homes. It has also created fertile ground for fraudsters. Among the most alarming trends are scams in which criminals pose as police officers, customs officials or investigators, frighten victims with false claims of legal trouble,
DA Editorial | Sara Debbarma A state’s health system is judged not by its showpiece hospitals but by how it treats the person living farthest from them. In Tripura, with its hilly terrain, scattered tribal settlements and seasonal flooding, the distance between a patient and a doctor is measured not only in kilometres but in
DA Editorial | dhruba deka With the rains behind us and the festive season in full swing, the tourist season in Tripura is about to begin. The state has much to offer: the grand Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala, the lake palace of Neermahal at Melaghar, the ancient rock carvings of Unakoti, the Tripura Sundari temple
DA Editorial Team Days after Gandhi Jayanti, tributes have been paid and speeches delivered. A more useful way to honour the Mahatma is to ask whether his idea of self-reliance, once symbolised by the humble charkha, is shaping India’s economy today. For Gandhi, swadeshi was never about nostalgia. It was about giving villages the means
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma As the monsoon withdraws from Tripura, a familiar sense of relief settles in. Rivers recede, roads dry out, and attention drifts to festivals and the winter months ahead. This is precisely the wrong moment to relax. For a state whose hills slide and whose plains flood with alarming regularity,
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka Every autumn, Tripura changes its face. Markets in Agartala swell with shoppers, pandals rise in neighbourhoods across the state, and the sound of the dhak announces a season that is as much about commerce as devotion. Durga Puja is more than a religious festival here. It is one of
DA Editorial Team Few Indian states are as closely wrapped by a neighbouring country as Tripura. With Bangladesh on three sides and a narrow land corridor linking it to the rest of India, the state has long been seen as remote. Yet that same geography could make it the Northeast’s most natural gateway to South
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Tripura holds a distinction that rarely makes headlines: it is India’s second-largest producer of natural rubber, after Kerala. Alongside it stands bamboo, abundant across the state’s hills and homesteads. Together, these two crops sustain tens of thousands of families, from tribal jhum cultivators turned rubber growers to artisans who
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka With Village Committee polling behind it, Tripura now moves toward a Special Intensive Revision of its electoral rolls — an exercise the ruling BJP itself asked to have deferred until exactly this moment. The sequence is worth tracing in full, because it complicates a narrative that might otherwise seem
