Bidhu Bhusan Das, also spelled Bidhubhusan Das[1] (11 April 1922 – 2 June 1999), was a public intellectual, educator, professor, senior government official, and university president/Vice Chancellor from India.
Bidhubhusan Das was born in Puri Odisha in 1922 in a well known Karan family , He was the eldest child of Rai Bahadur Durga Charan Das, a senior government official in both British India and independent India,[2] and the poet Nirmala Devi.
[6] In 1959, he was appointed Advisor to King Mahendra of Nepal as part of the Indian Aid Mission under the Colombo Plan, and wrote the entire set of statutes that established Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University.
[9] Das's maternal aunt was the leader, feminist, writer and social activist Sarala Devi.
[10] Das's maternal uncle, Nityanand Kanungo, was a prominent Indian politician from the state of Odisha.