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Satya Mohanty

Satya Mohanty is a poet, playwright, novelist, and public communicator. A former Union Secretary of Education and Secretary General of the National Human Rights Commission, he regularly contributes 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 Milia Islamia and Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Unpolitically Correct: The Politics and Economics of Governance (2024) is his latest publication.