On 14th of September, 1903 baby (Shova Ghosh) was born. She was the oldest daughter of humorous Devendra Kumar Basu Thakur of ‘Boro Badi’. She was schooled in Dhaka’s Eden School. She spent her youth in Dhaka and Malkhanagarh with her compatriots and then at the age of fifteen years she was married off to a famous Professor by the name of Prof. Debaprasad Ghosh. From that time onwards her name was changed to Shova Ghosh. After her marriage she passed both Matric Examination and I.A. Examination and in 1924 she passed B.A. degree from Bethune College with Sanskrit Honors. In Matric she received a scholarship of Fifteen Rupees. In 1932 she joined Brahmo Girls School which was located near Kolkata’s Upper Circular Road. At that time the principal of the school was Ms. Shaker. She was so moved by the teaching techniques of Mrs. Shova Ghosh that she wanted to send her to London for Montessori training with the help of her school fund. But Shova Ghosh couldn’t go because of her family obligations. She worked as a part time teacher of the school for some time. Later she joined as a full-time teacher in Victoria school.

She learned typing on her own during her spare time. She used to help her husband a lot by typing his work. She used to type his letters, books, and different articles which were sent both within and outside the country. Even she used to type the memos of her husband‘s political thoughts and ideals. She used to teach and mentor her kids. Slowly her work in the family increased. She couldn’t maintain the balance between her work and her family life and that is why in 1946 she resigned from her teacher’s job and started working as a family whole timer. After her kids got married she got back her free time. Her kids also became renowned person in their society.

She had six sons and two daughters. She used to teach all her kids even though they were into different streams of education. Her three sons were engineers, one was an I.A.S. officer and another son studied electronics in Germany and became a professional. Her last son passed his B.S.C degree in first class and then went to Chicago and France for his PhD. Her oldest daughter passed her B.A. degree with distinction and later passed fine arts from ‘Calcutta Art College’. She also earned the title of ‘Sangeet Tirtha’. Her youngest daughter passed her M.A in Sanskrit and received a gold medal from ‘Gitabitaan’ as a singer of ‘Sangeet Bharati’.

In 1963 the Indo American Society of Kolkata presented an award for ‘Mother of the Year’ to 5 successful mothers on the occasion of Mother’s Day. Shova Ghosh was one of them.

She didn’t spend her free time idly. When she was really old she started writing. First she wrote a memoir of her father’s house in ‘Malkhanagarh’ and then she wrote another memoir about her husband’s house in ‘Gava’. The title was ‘Aaj o Tara Pichu Daake’. This was published in 1981. After that she wrote an essay about four districts of Bangladesh, the districts were Chattagram, Dhaka, Barisal and Sylhet. She named it ‘Jeno Bhule Na Jai’. She also got a request from Sharadeshwari Ashram. The request was to translate a Bengali book written by Durga Puri titled ‘Sri Sri Maa Sharadeshwari o Ramakrishna’ to English. She finished the whole translation of the book which is around 450 pages in only six months. The Ashram organizers were elated by her effort. Even when she was eighty one years old she continued writing. She wrote on different topics. Generally we see that the people of the western countries faces deep depression after retiring from work, but this is not the case in country like ours. Why does this happen? Is there any source of this depression? She wrote a book regarding this. This book was published in America. She preached “Do whatever you are meant to do”- “Kal o Kriroti Gocchoti Ayuh”.