Adyasha Das is the Amazon India bestselling author of The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur: from Tantra to Tourism. She is one of the contemporary Odia writers known for her insightful and colorful portrayals of life. Suffused with sensitivity, she uses words and imagery with an uninhibited freedom, modulated with quality. Her stories have a rare psychological insight and are at the same time reflective, sensuous and elegant in their observations. She is the author of poetry collections Anuchharita (Odia), Nemesis and Brass Flowers (English), apart from academic and non-fiction books