Twenty-year-old Baisali Mohanty, a native of Puri district, has been selected for the Master’s degree programme at the world’s most prestigious Oxford University, UK.
Baisali, a +3 final year student of the lady Shriram College (lSR), New Delhi having Political Science as Honours subject, will join the Oxford University in October this year. She is among 18 students selected worldwide this year for the Master of Science Programme through extremely competitive admission rounds. She will graduate from the Oxford School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies with a dissertation on ‘Nuclear Policy of India’.
Born on August 5, 1994, Baisali is the daughter of former member of the National Commission for Women and National Film Censor Board member Manasi Pradhan and Chief Engineer (Electrical) Radha Binod Mohanty.
Baisali is a regular contributor on international and strategic affairs to several prestigious international journals, including the Open Democracy, UN Post and Mainstream. Besides, she is also an Odissi dancer performing at various national and international festivals for the last 13 years.