She matriculated in 1916 from Loreto Convent in Pretoria, worked for a while in the office of the Controller and Auditor General before being appointed in 1917 as a herbarium assistant at the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology.
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It is also a center of education with numerous well known educational institutions like Loreto Convent, St. Edmund's College, St. Anthony's College, St. Mary's College, Don Bosco Technical School, Shillong and the National Institute of Technology Meghalaya that offers courses like electricals, carpentry and printing and others, located within the boundary of Laitumkhrah.
The daughter of Indian diplomat B.K. Sanyal and Vina Sanyal (née Boolchand), she was raised in India, Laos, and Argentina, eventually studying at Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla and Jesus and Mary College (New Delhi).
She received secondary education at Loreto Convent, Balbriggan, County Dublin, Ireland; B.A. (Hons) in Politics and History at University College Dublin before studying at the Institut des Journalistes en Europe in Paris.