She is doing her doctoral studies on the border tribes on India's northeast and Myanmar. She was earlier a Project Fellow with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. Her areas of interest have been the problems of narcotics in Manipur and its socio-political impact. She had undertaken a field trip to the Moreh border in 2002 and has a publication to the effect titled "The Politics of Narcotics in India's Northeast."