Sanjay Pulipaka is currently a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata. A former Fulbright Fellow, he was a Pavate Visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge. His areas of interest include political transitions, conflict transformation, Indian politics and international politics. Sanjay also has extensive work experience in the realm of strengthening democracy at the grass-roots and in political and governance reforms. Rakhee Bhattacharya is currently a fellow at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi. She is working on various economic challenges of contemporary India. Prior to this, she has worked at other institutes across the country, including MAKAIAS, and was Endeavour post-doctoral fellow in Australia. She also taught at under-graduate and post-graduate levels as senior lecturer and visiting faculty. Her research areas are development, poverty, regional economies and conflicts. She has worked on many such issues in India’s Northeast and authored ‘Development Disparities in Northeast India’. Apart from this, she has edited a number of volumes and has published several articles in both national and internal journals. Sarit K. Chaudhuri is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. For the past 21 years he has been working among the tribes of Northeast India on issues of religion, art, identity, and transformation. He was a Post-Doc Fellow at SOAS, UK, for two years and has published eight books as well as numerous research papers in journals and books.