[2] His mother was Syeda Zebunessa Khatun, daughter of Khan Bahadur Syed Sikandar Ali.
[5] Known as Taufiq by his family, Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri was brought up in his home village of Bongaon, Nabiganj Upazila of Habiganj District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.
[citation needed] He was initially a journalist at the Morning News newspaper in the early 1950s before joining the Pakistan Taxation Service in 1955 after completing the CSS examinations.
These include:[citation needed] After he retired from Bangladesh Bank, he started a column with the Daily Star titled "Along My Way".
He served as an Adviser (the equivalent of a cabinet minister) for three months in the caretaker government of 1996, which ran the country and supervised the parliamentary elections.