Malay Mishra served as a career diplomat for 36 years and superannuated from the Indian Foreign Service on 31 July 2015 as India’s Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to
Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Post-retirement he is engaged in a doctoral work on the socio-economic empowerment processes of marginalized communities. Malay
Mishraset up the Vedanta Society of Hungary and has delivered several lectures on Vedanta and Swami Vivekananda’s thoughts and relevance for the present day society.