Ziipao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, IIT Bombay. He was the 2017-18 Raghunathan Family/ South Asian Fellow (Post-Doc). His research interest includes socio-anthropology of infrastructure, sociology of development, Indigenous/ Tribal studies, and Northeast Indian studies. Ziipao’s works have been published in the Journal of South Asian Development, Asian Ethnicity, Strategic Analysis, Economic and Political Weekly, and in multiple edited book chapters. His recent book Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast (Routledge: London and New York, 2020) examines the concept of infrastructure of injustice, infrastructural injustice, and infrastructure deficit in the conflict-ridden states of Northeast India.