Khujista's grandfather Shah Aminuddin Suhrawardy is reckoned to be the last Sufi Pir of the Suhrawardiyya order in Bengal.

[4] After finishing her senior Cambridge, she was appointed as an examiner for Urdu literature by Calcutta University, she was the only Indian woman to have received this honour at that time.

As a writer, she wrote the famous book "Aaina e Ibrat", which was approved by Calcutta University and was incorporated in the syllabus for all its affiliated colleges.

[2][8] Khujista empathized with the poor and hence used to visit the slums very often to educate the underprivileged people about health and sanitation, given that epidemics like Cholera and Influenza were in the wake at that time.

The couple gave birth to two sons Khujista died on 12 January 1919, after she caught influenza during one of her visits to the slums of Calcutta.