Arpita Das is an alumna of St Stephen’s College, Delhi University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, for which she received the Felix Scholarship. She is the Founder-Publisher of the award-winning independent publishing house based in New Delhi, Yoda Press. She teaches the Publishing Seminar to senior students of Creative Writing at Ashoka University and a Foundation Course called Introduction to Critical Thinking to first-year students. In the past, she helped set up the Word Lab at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements in Bangalore, and led the Sage School of Publishing courses at various universities and institutions across India. A Board Member of PublisHer (womeninpublishing.org), she writes often on book culture, publishing, popular culture, gender and bibliotherapy for various periodicals and platforms. She is also the Editor of the South Asia Series at Melbourne University Publishing.
