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 farmer of Sarti Village, 14 kms before Walong, is asking me not to take his opium saplings field's photograph. January, 2009