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 lady in Hawai, the distt. hqrs of Anjaw, weeding her opium patch in Jan, 2009. Her house is across the Higher Secondary School in Hawai and 3 minutes walk from the Courts and the Circuit House where all the officials stay!