Ajit Mohanty

Ajit Mohanty is a former Professor at JNU and ICSSR National Fellow with over 50 years of work in mother tongue-based education for tribal children in India and South Asia. He has also served as a Fulbright Professor at Columbia University and a visiting faculty worldwide. His books include The Multilingual Reality (2019) and Bhāsā Kathā, Bhāsā Byathā (2019/2024). In addition to academic publications, he writes essays, short stories, and columns in Odia. Promotion of education in mother tongue has been his life-time ideology, research, dedication, and ambition and Odia language, his love.