Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman is Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam. His areas of  interests include research on Northeast India, mainly on issues relating to transboundary water sharing and hydropower dams, roads and connectivity infrastructures, conflict and insurgency, peace building, development politics, migration and cross-border exchanges. He is committed to grassroots based alternative community work and development models. He is an avid photographer.

Edward Kieran Boyle is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan. He currently researches borders and borderland spaces in Japan, Georgia, and Northeast India, focussing on issues relating to maps and representation, scalar governance, territoriality, infrastructures, memory and heritage, and history. He received his PhD from Hokkaido University, where his thesis analysed the spatial incorporation of that northern island into the Japanese state by the nineteenth century. More details at www.borderthinking.com.