Noorjahan Bose (born 14 March 1938)[1] is a Bangladeshi writer and women's rights activist.

[3] Bose was born in Katakhali village at Boro Baishdia, an island in the Bay of Bengal, 14 March 1938.

At 17, she married Emadullah, the general secretary of East Pakistan Jubo League.

After the birth of her first child, Jaseem, she took a job as a dorm warden at Shadar Girls School, from which she had graduated.

In 1974, the family moved to Oxford, England and from there to the Washington, United States where Swadesh got a job with the World Bank.