The village by the river – Bomdo

This is the day I want to start to write about the village Bomdo in Upper Siang District, Arunachal, by the river Simsang, called Tsangpo in Tibet. What inspires me to write I can’t tell but seeing the google earth image of my field-village could be a trigger. This is the village;

Circled above are two important places in the village, the left one is my home for a big part of the next six months; the inspection bungalow of the forest department, built over a graveyard! and to the right is the place for local meetings and feasts.

In the next few chapters I will write stories of this village, since I will be spending a good amount of time there, you may see earlier articles with few mentions too. But here I start listing anecdotes from the village. Interesting things keep happening; someone brings a hunted barking deer someday, all days they bring back birds, the local booze parties and well the lazy evening gossip and chat! These chapters will be listed as village by the river: chapter X, where x is the number of the sequence of articles from the place. So, I hope you enjoy, cos’ I am going to enjoy writing them!