Prabhat Nalini Das (19 December 1927 – 14 November 2018)[1] was an Indian public intellectual, academic and university president.
She was subsequently head of the Department of English at Ranchi University, a senior research fellow at the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad, and founder-professor and head of the Department of English at Utkal University for almost 19 years.
Das also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, with independent charge of its Kohima campus, in Nagaland.
She was a Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, located at Stratford-upon-Avon, as a recipient of a British Council Fellowship.
Part of her collection of saris was requested for display at The Smithsonian during the Festival of India in the United States in 1985.
She was on the board of directors of the Life Insurance Corporation of India for one term, and was a special advisor on education, women's rights, arts and culture and development to Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo during his tenure as Chief Minister of Odisha.
[7][failed verification] Together with her husband, Professor Bidhu Bhusan Das, she supported and patronized Odissi dance and music, and set up an international film screening and appreciation society, first in Ravenshaw College in the early 1950s, and later in Bhubaneswar.