This paper attempts to present ethnographic images to fill the gap between theory and practice on damming North East India by taking the Mapithel dam case at the Indo-Myanmar border of Manipur state. The paper's objective is to unravel the dam-induced displacement, livelihood, cultural practices and everyday struggles through the lens of visuals. The paper argues that dam as development has created numerous problems on the water, land, people and livelihood, specifically for the Indigenous borderland communities but no solutions. Along with the ethnographic images, the paper supplement with the narratives of everyday lived experiences of the affected indigenous Tangkhul Naga. Through the ethnographic images, the paper ends by deconstructing the development stereotype that Indigenous Peoples are always opposed to development (dam) - on the contrary, it is against the neoliberal development agendas that uprooted the lives of Indigenous Peoples.
