One of her elder siblings Sati Devi was a well-known singer and musical exponent who worked with Uday Shankar in Almora and at Prithvi Theatre in Bombay and her daughter Ruma Guha Thakurta was a well-known personality in music and the acting world who was formerly married to the legendary singer Kishore Kumar.

She is also related to Atul Prasad Sen, the legendary Bengali composer, singer, lawyer and philanthropist.

She had a gifted voice and her father wanted to send her to Paris to be trained in soprano and western classical music.

In 1931, when she was thirteen her father died and she and her mother and sisters had to come to Calcutta to her paternal uncle Prasant Das's house.

After her husband died in 1992, she lived in Calcutta with her son Sandip, daughter-in-law Lalita and grandson Saurodip.