Early Life
Ghose comes from a prominent Bengali family. She is a sister of Ruma Pal, a former Supreme court judge, and of Bhaskar Ghose, former chairman of Prasar Bharati. Bhaskar's daughter, Sagarika Ghose and her husband Rajdeep Sardesai are prominent journalists who presently run the Indian arm of the CNN-IBN news channel. Ghose is also an aunt of Sanjay Ghose, a social worker who was abducted and killed by ULFA in Assam in 1997.
Ghose grew up in Mumbai and studied at Cathedral and John Connon School. She graduated from Lady Brabourne College in Kolkata and went on to study at Visva-Bharati University, in Shantiniketan, before joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1963.
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