Satya Mohanty is a poet, playwright, novelist and writer. A former Union Secretary of Education and Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, he has been a regular contributor to various national newspapers. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting scholar in 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. He is fiercely proud of his role as a public communicator.