Dr. Satya Mohanty,a former officer of the Indian Administrative Service, was the Union Education Secretary as well as Secretary General of the National Human Rights Commission. He has also held several senior positions in the Government of composite Andhra Pradesh, a state in the Indian Union. He has authored a book of essay in Odia,(Aaina Michha Kuhena/ The Mirror Does not Lie) and two books of poems in English( 'Dancing on the Edge' and "Migrants Chronicle & Pandemic Musings"). He has a novel, a book of short stories, and a book of plays which are under publication. He is a columnist writing regularly on economic and socio- political issues. Mohanty was an Edward S, Mason Fellow in Harvard University and a SPURS visiting scholar in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. He has been an Adjunct Professor in two universities and is a leading public communicator. He lives in Delhi.