These pictures go with the Arunachal article on this web site.
They show happy people producing illicit opium and selling it unabashedly in Lohit & Anjaw Districts of East Arunachal Pradesh, India.
All pictures by
Romesh Bhattacharji
Opium Valleys of Arunachal
A January, 2009 picture. Jhummed or swiddened fields like these have opium cultivation largely. Awesome and graceful forests of huge trees sacrificed at the altar of opiumm addiction.