Dr. Mohanjit is a Punjabi poet. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 for his poetry collection Kone Da Suraj.[1]
Mohanjit is from village Adliwala, Amritsar district, Punjab, India.[2] His first poems were published in 1956. During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, his writings were published in Nagmani magazine under the title ‘Dispatches from the Western Front’.[2]
He is based in Delhi and was a lecturer at the Delhi University's Deshbandhu College.[2]
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the poetry collection Kone Da Suraj in 2018. In 2020, he announced that he had returned his award in support of the 2020-2021 Indian farmers' protest.[3]
Mohanjit said that he got the award at the late age of 80 because the gang that was controlling the Punjabi Sahitya Akademi Award was opposed to him.[4]