Ira Ghosh (née Baruah) is the great granddaughter of Hemendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore’s elder brother. Her grandmother Pragnasundari Devi wrote the first systematic Bengali cookbook in 1900. Ira edited those volumes, added material written by Pragnasundari Devi, and published them as three volumes in 1995. Ira’s grandfather was Lakshminath Bezbaruah, known as the father of modern Assamese literature. “A Collection of Indo-Global Recipes” are influenced by Ira’s life-long interest in culinary arts, her Indian background, and spending many years in different countries.
Ira’s husband, Ashis Ghosh, was with the United Nations, and she has a son, Richik Ghosh (scientist), daughter, Gargi Barooah (music educator), and three granddaughters. Ira’s main career was in teaching and education administration. She has taught outside India and was once employed by the US Government’s State Department. She also was an administrator of a school for underprivileged children in Kolkata. She currently lives in Kolkata, India.