Satya Mohanty

Satya Mohanty is a poet, playwright, novelist and writer. A former Union Secretary of Education and Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, he has regularly been contributing to a wide range of national newspapers. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting scholar in the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Post-retirement, he taught Economics as an Adjunct Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He is fiercely proud of his role as public communicator.