Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Bose a ƙauyen Katakhali a Boro Baishdia, tsibiri a cikin Bay of Bengal. Ta tafi Barisal don kammala jarabawar shiga makarantar sakandare. A 17, ta auri Emadullah, babban sakataren kungiyar Jubo ta Gabashin Pakistan. Emadullah ya mutu ne daga cutar kyanda a cikin shekara guda yayin da take da juna biyu. Bayan haihuwar ɗanta na farko Jaseem, ta ɗauki aiki a matsayin mai kula da gida a Makarantar 'Yan mata ta Shadar, daga inda ta kammala karatu. Daga baya, a cikin 1963, ta auri babban abokin mijinta, Swadesh Bose. Ma'auratan da Jaseem sun tafi Cambridge, Ingila yayin da Swadesh ya sami tallafin karatu don Ph.D. a Jami'ar Cambridge. A shekara ta 1967, sun ƙaura zuwa birnin Karachi. Noorjahan ta haifi 'yar Monica a Cambridge, da' yarta ta biyu, Anita, a Karachi. Iyalin sun koma Dhaka a farkon 1971, kafin fara yakin neman 'yanci
Ka yi haƙuri. A cikin 1974, dangin sun koma Oxford, Ingila kuma daga can zuwa Washington, Amurka inda Swadesh ta sami aiki tare da Bankin Duniya. Noorjahan ta kammala digiri na biyu a cikin aikin zamantakewa kuma ta fara aikinta a matsayin ma'aikacin zamantakewa tare da Shirin 'Yan Gudun Hijira na Katolika.