Nimmi Kurian is associate professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Faculty Advisor, India China Institute, The New School, New York. Her research interests include the Asian borderlands; transborder mobilities; comparative regionalism; and transboundary water governance. Her recent publications include: India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security (co-author) University of Michigan Press, 2016; The India China Borderlands: Conversations Beyond the Centre, Sage, 2014; ‘How Suu Kyi can Change the Rohingya Narrative’, Diplomatist, November 2017.