Sanjib Baruah has done tremendous work on laying down newer ways of looking at the Northeastern region. His formulations of governors as generals, nationalising space as a method of nation building, etc. provides us with tools to understand the predicament of a region which is still thought of within the colonial paradigm. The region continues to be treated as a frontier and hence the need to securitise it. The region still suffers from underdevelopment and alienation. This is a review essay of his two books Durable Disorder and India Against Itself.