Contributors:

Manjeet Baruah is a researcher, writer and translator. He is a faculty in the Women’s Studies & Development Centre, University of Delhi, and his doctoral work is on consciousness (of identity), textual structure and meaning in Assamese fiction. His research interest includes cultural history, social geography and gender.
manjeetbaruah@gmail.com

Nahakpam Aruna is Professor of Manipuri Literature at Manipur University, Canchipur. She is the author of Nongthangleima Amasung Taibung (2001), and Kunshuba Chahichagi Manipuri Upannyas Neinaba (1991). Currently, she is working on modern Manipuri fiction.

Laltluangliana Khiangte is Professor at the Department of Mizo, Mizoram University, Aizawl. A recipient of Padma Shri, he has authored several publications that include Mizo Drama: Origin, Development & Themes (1993), Thuhlaril: Literary Trends & History of Mizo Literature (1995), Biakliana Robawm (1996, 2007), and Mizo Songs and Folk Tales (2002). ltkhiangte@rediffmail.com

Ashley Tellis was Panos Media Fellow in the “Media and Conflict” fellowship programme at Panos’ Regional Office, Guwahati (2007–08). He has taught at colleges under the Universities of Delhi and Bombay. He also taught at Eastern Illinois University and City University of New York. He is currently researching on literary and print culture in the “Northeast” and is a freelance columnist with The New Indian Express, The Hindu and Rolling Stone.
failedsubjectivity@gmail.com

I. Anungla Aier is a faculty at the Department of Anthropology, Kohima Science College, Nagaland. She works on issues of traditional institutions and development.

Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at the Bard College, New York. Some of his prominent works include Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India (2007); Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (2005) and India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (1999).
sanjibbaruah@yahoo.com

Yengkhom Jilangamba is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is also an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. His work looks at the ideas of frontier and territoriality, production of identity through colonial ethnographic knowledge.
yengkhom@gmail.com