I am a political geographer and ethnographer specializing in inter-Asian spaces (with a focus on India, China, and Myanmar). My research is on borderlands, extractive spaces, climate-affected regions, and urban frontiers. I am interested in global critical debates and methodologies on borders, indigenity, mobility, surveillance, and security. 

I am now a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich where I convene the MA module in Political Geography and also teach Feminist Geographies and Critical Development. I serve as the review & forum editor for Geopolitics, am part of the editorial collective for Tea Circle which publishes perspectives on and from Myanmar (Burma), and am currently co-editing the forthcoming Handbook of South Asian Borders with Oxford University Press (OUP). I am also a non-residential Research Fellow in South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.

My ongoing publications build on my doctoral research and fieldwork on Myanmar's borders with Northeast India and China. My dissertation, titled, "Seeing Like A Border: Resource Frontiers, Voices and Visions on Myanmar’s Borderlands with India and China" was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal for best Ph.D. dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore in 2022. 

I was born and brought up in Northeast India (Assam) and speak several (mostly Asian) languages. I have lived and worked in New Delhi, Beijing, Kunming, Taipei, Myitkyina, Aizawl, Yangon, and Singapore before moving to Zurich. I enjoy traveling, photography, reading fiction, jamming with blues & rock bands, and consuming unhealthy doses of Asian cringe cinema. 

Feel free to get in touch with any inquiries, mutual interests, and collaborations.