India’s Northeast can rightly be described as the beginning of Southeast Asia. Lack of proper or no connectivity has deprived India’s Northeast — a vast swathe of land inhabited by nearly 40 million people — from the trickle-down effect of the booming tiger economies in the region’s South Asian neighbourhood. With foreign linkages in mind, the Government of India launched the Look East Policy in 1992 with a view to usher in development in Northeast India by connecting it with the Southeast Asian neighbourhood. 

How to strengthen and expand the linkages between these two regions? What are major bottlenecks? How can they be addressed?