Dr. Adyasha Das is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management, Bhubaneswar, (Ministry of Tourism, Government of India). She studied at the prestigious Delhi School of Economics, obtained a Master's in Business Administration from Xavier Institute of Management and a doctoral degree in Organizational Behaviour. An avid researcher, her interests span a wide area - Cross-cultural Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Cultural Tourism, Culture Studies etc.
Adyasha has participated in the Indo-Germanic writer-in-residence program, AKSHAR organized by Sahitya Academy, the Goethe Institute and the [...]. She has been the recipient of Junior Fellowship, Ministry of Culture for research on "Empowerment in the creative pursuits of pre-independent women". An active participant of academic workshops at national and international levels, she has read from her works at Literaturhaus Frankfurt am Main, The House of World Cultures, Literaturhaus Berlin, Leipzig literaturhaus, Indische Nacht im Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Uto Kulm, Zurich, Frankfurt Book Fair, Odisha Society of Americas convention, Seattle etc., Universities of Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysian, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, San Antonio etc.

Her fascination with the Yogini cult spurred her intensive research on them in various sites of the Yogini temple. Her first book on the Yoginis, "The Yogini Trail: in search of the Chausath Yoginis" was appreciated greatly by her readers.