Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur, brother of Sri Ashwini Kumar Basu Thakur was born in the fifth decade of Nineteenth century. He first passed his Entrance Examination from Dhaka Collegiate School and then acquired B.A. degree from Dhaka College. He passed M.A in history from Kolkata’s Hindu College. He then started teaching from 1880. He worked as a teacher in several academic institutions till 1922.

He worked as an Assistant Teacher at Naogaon Zilla School. He later became the headmaster at Kumilla and Konnagar English Schools. Later he became a lecturer at Dhaka’s Jagannath College. He also taught students as lecturer of the following colleges: Bhawalpur Egerton College (1886-1890) presently in Bangladesh; Metropolitan College Calcutta (Vidyasagar College); He worked as a Principal of Delhi Hindu College (1901-1903). He then became Principal of Barisal Zilla school.

On 14 August 1906 National School and College was formed at 119 Bow bazaar Street (Bipin Bihari Ganguly). Sri Aurobindo Ghosh who was at that time residing in Baroda left his job there and came back to Kolkata to become the principal of that school. Answering his call Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur also joined the National College as a lecturer with only hundred rupees as his salary. When the National College shifted he went to Hazaribagh and became the lecturer of St. Columbus College. Then he consecutively became lecturer at Barisal’s B.M. College, Bankura Christian College (1912-1916), National Muslim University, and Aligarh. It is from Aligarh University where he took his retirement.

In his student life he was a renowned cricketer from Town club. He used to organize cricket matches between students of Bhawalpur Egerton College. He had a big hand in making Cricket popular there.

Prasanna Kumar was very patriotic by nature. While working in Bhawalpur estate he had an incident with a British Crown Representative who came to visit the estate. At that time the rules was that attendees of British representative should be wearing British/ English clothes. Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur was invited in the party thrown in honor of that representative. However, he turned up in Bengali clothes – Dhoti, Punjabi and Shawl. Everyone was surprised and the Crown representative got very angry. Later when he got introduced to him, he understood that Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur was a renowned person and not a commoner. The Nawab offered Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur with the post of Prime Minister in his estate. He refused the offer of Nawab and remained a lecturer of the college.

While he was a teacher in Bankura Missionary College, a renowned district magistrate by the name of Mr. Cooke came to visit that district. He had a strange mindset which was though very common during the time of British Raj. Mr. Cooke went out for morning walks and he always wanted to be the first person walking the road and he disliked when any native person walks in front of him with an umbrella in hand or head. However, Prasanna Kumar didn’t care about him and every day he used to go out for morning walks with an umbrella in hand. The Englishman got very angry with that and summoned Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur to his office. Afterwards when he got introduced to Sri Prasanna Kumar he realized his stature and came to know that he is no common native person. From that day onwards the umbrella act got abolished.

He was also responsible to raise the fire of nationality within his students as he always thought it was his duty to sow the seeds of Nationality within his students. One of his favorite students was Dr. Gurjarilal Nanda.

After retiring from his teaching profession he went to Kasi to stay there. During that time his wife developed a serious mental problem. Sri Brahmananda Swami from Ramakrishna Mission treated her. Because of that Sri Prasanna Kumar Basu Thakur built a meditation room for the Sadhus at Adoityo Ashram. He died in Kasi and January 1925.