Bidhubhusan Das was both a student and a renowned and admired teacher of world literature and comparative literature and a particularly close friend of Gopinath Mohanty. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford University, and Columbia, Harvard and Patna University. He taught at Ravenshaw College, and at Utkal, Ranchi and Trubhuvan University, Nepal. He was Director of Public Instruction, Odisha, and Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University.