Ancestral roots & village connection
Despite a long academic career in major cities and prestigious international institutions, Dr. Das remained tied to his village home in Neola, Bari (Jajpur District, Odisha). The family maintained a close connection to Neola, using it as an anchor for family gatherings, social work and quiet reflection away from university administrative life.
Immediate family
- Wife — Mrs. Neena Das (Nalini Prava). The cornerstone of the household, Mrs. Das provided steady support throughout Dr. Das's career — from his early days as a college lecturer through his doctoral research, international fellowships at University College London, and his tenure as Vice-Chancellor. She managed the household and welcomed generations of research scholars, students and academic guests into their home.
- Daughter — Ellipse (Meeta). In a lighthearted reflection of his passion for mathematics, Dr. Das named his daughter Ellipse. She grew up surrounded by an academic environment and went on to co-author research with her father — a paper on stochastic integrals and random Fourier–Stieltjes series in the Journal of the Orissa Mathematical Society (1993–96), and another in the 1999 monograph Sequence Spaces and Applications.
- Son — Epsilon (Raja). Continuing the tradition, his son Epsilon was named after the Greek letter ε, used endlessly in mathematical analysis to denote small, precise quantities. The names Ellipse and Epsilon became a warm talking point among family friends, colleagues and academic circles.
- Son — Partha Das (Lony). Named Omicron at birth — the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet — and later called Partha, the youngest rounded out the family unit, growing up alongside his siblings in Bhubaneswar and the family's village home.
