Mritiunjoy Mohanty

Mritiunjoy Mohanty is from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India and he has been at IEIM since August 2006.

Born in Cuttack, Orissa in 1960, I have been a bit of rolling stone having lived, besides Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta, where I have been living since 1999), in Ranchi, Durgapur, Delhi, Bangalore, Mexico City and Montreal. The bulk of my life however I have spent in Delhi. Outside of Economics, I have always been fascinated by History both professionally and otherwise. I enjoy traveling, reading, cooking, trying different cuisines, listening to music (Indian and Western Classical, Jazz, Rock, Hindi film music) and watching films and plays.

Résumé https://www.iimcal.ac.in/users/mritiunjoy

Conferences :

« Why are food prices rising globally? » Lecture delivered to the Third World Studies Certificate Programme, Marianopolis College, Montreal. 6th May 2008

« A Changing India in a Changing World: Potentialities and Realities » was presented as a part of a lecture series « Les grands acteurs d’un monde en mutation » organized by Institut d’études internationales de Montréal (IEIM) of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). 27th February 2008

« India: an emerging power? » was presented as a part of the seminar series organized by the Centre d´Études et de Recherche Internationales (CERIUM) of the Université de Montréal. 22nd January 2008

« India’s Tryst with Destiny: the choices we make » was also presented as a part of the SNID (Studies in National and International Development) Seminar Series at Queens University, Kingston. 10th January 2008

« The World’s Cheapest Car« , panel discussion on the Current, CBC Radio’s current affairs program on 10th January 2008

« Why criticising the 1-Lakh ($2500) car is wrong »
An op-ed piece on the world’s cheapest car

« India’s Tryst with Destiny: the choices we make was presented as a part of the seminar series organized by the Centre de Recherche en Ethique de l`Universite de Montreal (CREUM) of the Université de Montréal. 5th December 2007 [paper available on request]

« Micro-credit : Finance for the Age of Diminished Expectations » is an invited lecture as a part of the seminar series organized by the Centre de Recherche en Ethique de l`Universite de Montreal (CREUM) of the Université de Montréal. 6th March 2007

« Economic Growth & Political Contestation in India: The Contradictory Impulses of Rising Economic, Social Inequality & Lower Caste Access to Political Power » is an invited lecture as a part of the IDS Speaker Series during the « International Development Week » celebrations of the International Development Studies Programme of St. Mary`s University, Halifax, Canada. 26th January 2007