MOHANJEET AT UCLA

So, in the early 1950s, Mohanjeet leaves her native Punjab for the UNITED STATES. She studies POLITICAL SCIENCE at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA). After her master's degree, she enrolls in a Ph.D. at the University of Berkeley, San Francisco, without following through. The fever of learning has mingled with that of field investigations since she conducted her first reports, then president of the UCLA student bureau.

And here she is now in New York, first at the service of the UN as a political research assistant and, very quickly, a POLITICAL JOURNALIST. From 1956 to 1959, she works for the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE and then for the NEW YORK TIMES. She is the very first representative of India and the first foreigner to collaborate with the largest American newspapers.

Still determined to serve the UNITED NATIONS, Mohanjeet then joins the communication service of the INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY based in Vienna, Austria. And soon, she spends a year in Paris in the UNESCO offices, from where she still collaborates with the written press.

In 1962, ten years after her departure, accompanying Jackie Kennedy, she returns to INDIA and rediscovers her country. Of India, she will say that she only knew Gandhi. At 14, she had read him and had already meditated deeply on his PROFOUND, ORIGINAL, AVANT-GARDE, REVOLUTIONARY REFLECTIONS.