It has been a remarkably violent year. As India grapples with violence in a volatile and fragile world of global terrorism, organized crime and authoritarian regimes, threats to human security will continue to dominate the next year. Kashmir’s protests may have subsided but the anger on the street has not died down. India’s uneasy relations with Pakistan and the ceasefire violations along the international border will be the biggest worry for India in the coming year. Assam’s Bodoland area remains tentative with proliferation of arms and ethnic groups divided over statehood demand. Manipur’s troubles seem to have increased in the run up to the assembly election early 2017; an economic blockade that has exacerbated the valley versus hill divide, renewed threats by armed Naga groups, attacks being launched from across the Myanmar border and the valley based armed groups who are still at large. There is no policy change in the government’s ‘law and order’ approach to Left Wing Extremism and while the fatalities have come down, the situation in the Maoist corridor with very poor development indices may not see any resolution between the government forces and the Maoists.