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This collection of twenty-nine essays, in honour of Prof. Basudeb Datta Ray, Secretary, North East India Council for Social Science Research, Shillong, touches upon the multiple contours of society, culture and development in the North-east region of India. It deals with the different social institutions like family, kinship and marriage; youth dormitory in the tribal society; religious rites and rituals; cultural interaction and exchanges; folklore; value systems; caste and tribal identities; trends of social and political development; youth and women movements; and gender dimension in social development. It also addresses a wide range of issues conceiving development at micro as well as macro levels, the Look East Policy, economic and institutional returns, and the implications of border, citizenship and migration problems.