Aerial view of the Kangto glacier and snow peaks of Western Arunachal Fortress
India
High-altitude glacial lake in Western Arunachal seen from above

Arunachal

One state. Three journeys.
A world revealed from West to East.

A photographic passage across a living frontier

Three books.
Three worlds within one.

Cover of Volume 1 — The Sap Runs Perennial

Vol. 1 Western Arunachal

The Sap runs Perennial

Faith · High passes · Memory

From the vertical forests of Kameng and the high country of Sela to Tawang, Zemithang, and the contested waters of the Nam Ka Chu — a journey through faith, ecology, memory, and frontier. Selected passage

Pakke · Eaglenest · Sela · Tawang · Zemithang

“Stone-and-wood homes, intricate woodwork, and fortress-like layouts survive without modern replacements.”

A land too vast for a single telling.

Arunachal is shaped by rivers, ridges, forests, and communities that have lived in their embrace for centuries.

Across three volumes, Shiv Kunal Verma travels from the monastery country of the west, through the great river valleys at the centre, to the rain-fed forests and eastern frontiers of India. The result is neither atlas nor encyclopaedia, but an intimate record of continuity and change.

  • 3Volumes
  • 600+Pages
  • West → EastOne continuous journey

West to east, the land keeps changing.

Altitude becomes forest, Buddhism gives way to the Tani world, and the great river valleys descend toward the Patkai. Each crossing reveals another Arunachal.

The thread that binds the trilogy

From the concluding reflection in The Wild Green Kingdom

“Every valley holds its own narrative, every bend a reminder of continuity and change. To follow these rivers is to trace the lifelines of the land.”
  1. Kameng
  2. Siang
  3. Subansiri
  4. Dibang
  5. Lohit
  6. Noa-Dihing
Official presentation of the Arunachal trilogy with leaders holding the books
Official presentation of the Arunachal trilogy

A public moment

Presented to the state’s leadership.

Shiv Kunal Verma and Vallabh Bhanshali present the Arunachal trilogy to the Hon’ble Governor and Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

Portrait of photographer and historian Shiv Kunal Verma

The Author

Shiv Kunal Verma

Author of “1962: The War That Wasn’t” and the Northeast Trilogy · Founder, Fortress India

A journey seen with the eye of a photographer and understood through geography, history, and lived experience.

Verma’s passage across Arunachal moves between the intimate and the immense: a kitchen, a monastery, a river crossing, a mountain watershed, a remembered battle. His camera records a landscape in transition while remaining attentive to the people whose cultures give every valley its distinct voice.

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The complete collection

Bring the whole journey home.

Three volumes. One continuous passage through the geography, cultures, and living memory of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Published by Fortress India with Desh Apnayen

Forewords to the trilogy

Introduced by leaders who know the land.

  1. Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik

    Lieutenant General
    PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retd)
    Governor, Arunachal Pradesh

  2. Pema Khandu

    Chief Minister
    Arunachal Pradesh