[1] He was born in 1892 as the eldest son of Akshyaya Kumar Ghose and Sundaramanu Devi.
Due to his father's demise in the same year, he couldn't resume his study immediately.
[3] He started his teaching career in 1916 as an Assistant Teacher at the Seminary School, Cuttack.
[6] Ghose's maternal grandfather Ghourishankar was the editor of Utkala Deepika, the first Odia language newspaper in Odisha.
[2] Odia playwright Kartik Kumar Ghose was his younger brother.