Jaideep Saikia

His latest works include "Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization", "Documents on the North East", "Circle of Treason: Bangladesh Beyond the Threat of Illegal Migration, "Shadow of Daesh", "Counter Radicalisation: In Defence of Common Sense", "Mind Over Matter", The Idea of India: Is there need for a debate" and "Point of Impact (August 2022). He has over two dozen peer reviewed published papers on security and strategy in prestigious national and international journals and has emerged as the most important commentator on national security issues pertaining to the North East and the countries abutting the region. He regularly appears on popular national and international media and is a much sought after commentator on national security. Saikia is a regular columnist with the widely circulated and prestigious "Firstpost". His recent writings are available in the Firstpost website.https://www.firstpost.com/author/jaideep-saikia Jaideep Saikia is also a reputed poet with five published anthologies of poetry including "Neruda or Nobody" and "Quarter to Eight" which has received rave reviews in literary circles.

He is also the author of the bestseller Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India, which in the words of South Asia observer, Stephen Philip Cohen, is "One of the most important books on the question of insurgency yet to appear..." Jaideep Saikia also is a regular commentator on the ULFA, Bangladesh and Islamist extremism in South Asia, with numerous papers and books on the subject, which he has either edited or written. His edited anthology, "Frontier in Flames: North East India in Turmoil" is a collection of essays by experts on the region and has been hailed as a seminal work on the North East. The anthology was released in New Delhi by the celebrated columnist B G Verghese in February 2008. In his bestselling book, "Terror Sans Frontiers", Saikia had not only documented all the Islamist terror organisations that are operating in the region, but was the first to predict the entry of al-Qaeda into the Indian sub-continent.

Jaideep Saikia is a top South Asian security and terrorism expert. He has served the Governments of India and Assam in security advisory capacities, including a stint as an "Expert on Northeast India in the National Security Council Secretariat". Jaideep Saikia is also a celebrated theorist and expert on Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Islamic terror groups of all hues and denominations. He is an authority on Islamist related violence in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and the Indian sub-continent and has written authoritative papers on the subject - especially after his tour of Bangladesh in March 2016. Saikia who had been a State Guest to Pakistan in 1988 was also a Senior Fellow at the "Vivekananda International Foundation" in Delhi, where he worked with current National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Jaideep Saikia is also considered to be an authority on the India-China Boundary issue as it pertains to the Eastern Sector and his 2014 theory of the "Line of Amity" (https://www.globalorder.live/post/examining-the-line-of-amity-a-proposed-india-china-border-settlement) has of late, witnessed enormous traction and is being closely studied by experts on boundary resolution. He toured the People's Republic of China in 2002 and held wide ranging discussions on the India-China Boundary issue with top think tank leaders of the country including Wang Hongwei, Ma Jiali, Rong Ying, Shen Dingli and Zhang Guihong. He has co-authored papers on India-China relations with Wang Hongwei and Zhang Guihong. Saikia's paper "Quest for a Chindian Arc" published in Defense and Security Analysis (Vol:22, Number:4, December 2006) is considered to be a masterpiece on India-China relations.