Drishadwati is from Kolkata, India. She has done her M.Phil in Women's Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She did her M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from the same university. Her M.Phil dissertation interrogated the creation of caste markers in three canonical Bengali novels that were published in the decades close to India's Independence from the British rule in 1947. In her Ph.D., she wants to understand the relationship between caste as an identity and space as one of its major determinants through an analysis of the mythologies and chronicles of the city of Kolkata. She has also been actively writing for online portals, journals, and magazines in which she has discussed and debated issues related to caste, gender, student politics, affirmative action, food politics, etc.