Kaustubh Deka is a columnist and teacher in the Department of Political Science, Dibrugarh University. His recent publications include The old man by the waterfall: Deep entanglements of culture, state-making and geopolitics in Arunachal Pradesh published in European Bulletin of Himalayan Research and Youth Activism published in The Routledge Companion to Northeast India. He also contributes articles to leading Indian newspapers and magazines.