Education:

1. Bachelor’s Degree : St. Edmund’s College, Shillong
2. Master’s Degree : English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
3. Ph.D.: English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
4. Other: NET-JRF, 2010

Professional Experience:

• Taught part-time at Loyola College, Williamnagar from March-May, 2016.

Areas of Interest/ Specialization:

• Fiction and study of narrative, digital culture, philosophies of mind and body, critical theory.

Research Publications:

1. “Tracing the Postcolonial Naga Worldview: A Brief Study On the Conversion Movement Among the Naga Tribes of Northeast India” Journal of Northeast Region (JONER), Vol. 3 No. 2, June 2015, pp. 9-19, ISSN 2321-0583.
2. “Through the Looking Glass of Insurgency in Nagaland: A Discursive Construction of the Northeast” Humanities Circle: International Journal of Central University of Kerala, Vol. 3 No. 1, June 2015, pp. 145-161; ISSN 2321-8010.
3. “Tradition and Democracy: Matriliny and Political Participation of Women in the Khasi Hills” Journal of Northeast Region (JONER), Vol. 1 No. 4, June 2016, pp. 38-44; ISSN 2321-0583.
4. “The Textuality of Mind and Body” Humanities Circle: International Journal of Central University of Kerala, Vol. 4 No. 2, Winter 2016, pp. 51-87; ISSN 2321-8010.
5. “Reading Christos Tsiolkas: A ‘body-bound’ Perspective of Four Novels” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, Vol. 25, 2016, pp. 95-104; ISSN 0975-5659; https://www.dujes.co.in/p/archive.html.
6. "Visions of a ‘Digital North East’: Representation, Constructs and Emerging Contestations" The GUINEIS Journal, Vol. VII & VIII, 2020-2021, pp. 99-129, published March 2022; UGC CARE List I- Serial No. 102; ISSN: 2347-2669; https://journals.gauhati.ac.in/guineis/past-guineis. 
7. "A Futile Activity”: Reflections on Imprisonment in India through Kobad Ghandy’s Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir (2021)" The Prison Journal, Volume 102, Issue 6, n.p.; ISSN: 0032-8855; Online ISSN: 1552-7522; https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855221136202. 

Book Chapters:

1. “The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and Tribal Development” in Tribal Welfare in India With Special Reference to North-East India, June 2014, ISBN 978-93-81563-33-5, pp. 178-197.
2. “The Complexity of Democratic Polity in the Khasi Hills” in South Asia: Past, Present and Beyond, December 2015, ISBN 978-93-81563-64-9, pp. 218-224.
3. "Block-II, UNIT-II Paradise Lost  (Book-I, II) John Milton" in Self Learning Material on MA English (DODL), Course: ENG-102 (Block-1 & 2) Poetry: Chaucer to the Romantics ISBN 978-93-82785-68-2 , pp. 81-167.
4. "The Transpersonal Nation: Diasporic Narrative in Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap" in Postcoloniality in Transition: Essays on Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization, 2020 ISBN 978-1-64783-490-6, pp. 202-218.
5. "The Socio-Cultural Underpinnings of Democracy in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya: Reframing the Past to Understand the Present" in Communities, Institutions and Histories of India’s Northeast, 2022, ISBN: 9781032158389 (hbk); ISBN: 9781003245865 (ebk), pp. 205-221.
6. "This Collection is a Start": An Exploration of Contemporary Women's Writing in English from Arunachal Pradesh in The Inheritance of Words: Writings from Arunachal Pradesh" in Reimagining Marginality: Exploitation, Experience, Expression, 2022, ISBN 978-93-5529-353-4,  pp. 127-143. 

Online Articles and Publications:

1. "All the Places I Want to Go to", in A World Rediscovered: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse, 2012, ISBN 9788182533370, https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/432. 
2. A Preliminary Reading of Some Poems from ‘The Inheritance of Words: Writings from Arunachal Pradesh’, in Poetry Without Fear, Vol. I No. 2, Aug-Oct, 2022, ISSN 2583-4258, https://poetrywithoutfear.com/a-preliminary-reading-of-some-poems-from-the-inheritance-of-words-writings-from-arunachal-pradesh-by-dr-basil-n-darlong-diengdoh/.
3. Poems: 'An Ode To Kwai' And 'Coward', in Outlook India, 18 January 2023, https://www.outlookindia.com/national/poems-an-ode-to-kwai-and-coward-news-254768.