[citation needed] Due to severe physical illness in her childhood, Anurupa Debi started to learn a little late.

While she was bedridden, her elder sister Surupa Devi used to recite Kashidasi Mahabharata and Krittivasi Ramayana to pass their leisure time.

Also, according to rules of their family, during their Grandpa's leisure time, they would sit next to him and listen to one chapter of Mahabharata and Ramayana each day.

[4] Till the mid-19th century, Indian women were deprived from education and people used to restrict them only within household chores, as they remained largely uneducated.

In the context of severe gender discrimination, Debi broke the chain and established herself as an eminent Bengali novelist, writer and poet of her time.

[4] Once in her childhood, her elder sister Surupa Devi sent her letters on colorful papers in form of poetry.

In 2013, Swapna Dutta writes for The Hindu, Anurupa "ruthlessly pointed out the evils of the prevalent social code," and "Nearly all her novels were made into successful stage plays and films.