Mohan Das Namishray has been a senior correspondent with the Nav Bharat Times, New Delhi, as well as chief editor of the Hindi monthly Samajik Nyay Sandesh and minister of social justice and empowerment for the government of India. He is a noted journalist and the author of over fifty books and numerous articles, and a founder of the Hindi magazine Bayaan. Some of his books have been translated into different Indian languages, as well as into English, Japanese, German and Chinese. His autobiography Apne Apne Pinjre (Self Cage), the first Dalit autobiography in Hindi.