Lipi Ghosh is a Former Centenary Professor of International Relations, University of Calcutta. She is currently Vice Chancellor of Sona Devi University, Ghatsila, Jharkhand. Her area of specialisation is India's relations with South East Asia. She also deals with ethnicity, minority and cultural studies in South and Southeast Asia. She was Nehru-Fulbright APE Fellow (2014-15), visiting professor MSH, Paris (1986, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012), CWIT Fellow to SOAS, London (1999, 2004) Asia Fellow in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, (2000) SEAP, Cornell University, (2002) University of British Columbia University (2005) and ISEAS, Singapore ( 2010). She has 18 books to her credit.Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Senior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation" s Neighbourhood Initiative. She specialises in South Asia, energy politics, forced migration and women in conflict zones. She was a Recipient of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust Senior Media Fellowship (2007),and the Kodikara Award from the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo (1998-99). Dr. Basu Ray Chaudhury was ICSSR Post Doctoral Fellow (2004-06) at the Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, and was also Visiting Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris( 2012). She has 9 books to her credit.