Raja Mohanty teaches in the Visual Communication programme at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. His research interests include an engagement with traditional art and knowledge; storytelling and narrative structures; spirituality and its relevance to present societies; pedagogical studies and practices that seek to reaffirm links between design methodologies and the approaches followed in arts, literature, theatre and music. He is also a painter, writer and poet and publishes books that are hand-crafted.