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Satya Mohanty
Satya Mohanty is a poet, playwright, novelist and writer. A former officer of the Indian Administrative Service, he served as Union Secretary of Education as well as Secretary General of the National Human Rights Commission. An Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University and a SPURS visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has also taught Economics as an Adjunct Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Mohanty has authored a book of essays in Odia, Aaina Michha Kuhena (The Mirror Does Not Lie), two earlier collections of poems in English, Dancing on the Edge and Migrants’ Chronicle & Pandemic Musings, a book of plays, Breathless & Other Plays, and a book of non-fiction, Unpolitically Correct: The Politics and Economics of Governance. A regular columnist on economic and socio-political issues, he is fiercely proud of his role as a public communicator. He lives in Hyderabad.
