Shri Satyajit Panda is a former General Manager (HR) of NTPC who devoted over three decades to human resource leadership after joining the organisation as an Executive Trainee (Personnel). An M.Phil. scholar in Sinology at the University of Delhi, his professional outlook underwent a profound transformation after coming under the influence of Prof. S. K. Chakraborty in 2000, embracing management through Indian ethos. A prolific writer, trilingual poet and thinker inspired by Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, he has authored several acclaimed papers. His devotional composition He Jagannāth Swāmi was set to music and rendered by the legendary Jagjit Singh.