This collection of research articles by academicians, researchers and thinkers is a study of the historical, cultural and socio-economic interactions of North-east India. The articles cover diverse areas like health, literature, performing art, environment, science and technology, urbanisation, immigration, communal violence, women’s status and entrepreneurship, political history, ethnic identity and economic development. With reference to the tribal as well as non-tribal communities, they address dilemmas in society such as communal conflicts, illegal immigration and indigenous people and environmental politics. They examine issues concerning specific groups like impact of Christianity on the formation of the Bodo society and social transformation of the Sonowal Kachari tribe of Assam. They also scrutinise the Look East Policy of India and its connection with the North-east region that is India’s gateway to East Asia.