Bishnu N. Mohapatra

Bishnu N. Mohapatra is a political scientist and poet, an educator and a commentator on society, governance, policy, and culture. Besides being a professor of politics, he is the founding director of the Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Krea University. He was the inaugural Dean of the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) at Krea. Mohapatra taught politics for over twenty-five years at the University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Azim Premji University. He has held visiting appointments at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, the National University of Singapore, the University of Kyoto, Japan, and the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He has published in the areas of identity politics, cultural imaginings, democracy, minority rights, urban politics, civil society, and social capital. Mohapatra is also a well-known Indian poet. He has authored five volumes of poetry in Odia. A volume of his poetry in the English translation, A Fragile World, was published in 2005.