The second volume of The Highlander Journal (2022) expands its exploration of Highland Asia, engaging with themes of ritual, memory, visual culture, and representation. This issue features Tarun Bhartiya’s evocative photographic essay, Niam/Faith/Hynñiewtrep, which interrogates faith, colonial legacies, and indigenous agency through 100 striking postcards. Nigel Shakespear’s This is Io examines colonial-era photographs from Tamlu, Nagaland, reflecting on memory and the ethics of repatriation. Tom Crowley’s Mumuret offers a visual ethnography of the Kalasha, exploring artistic representation and identity on the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. Ethnographic studies include Bordoloi’s The Ritualistic World of the Tiwa Community, which examines ritual performance, and Blurred Boundaries, a study of cultural transition through textiles in Northeast India. The volume also features a book review by N. Lemtur, critically engaging with recent historical scholarship on British colonial boundary-making by Thomas Simpson. Through these diverse contributions, The Highlander Journal continues to foster rigorous, interdisciplinary discussions on the histories, cultures, and contemporary realities of highland communities.