Katharina von Bora was the daughter of a Jan von Bora auf Lippendorf and his wife Margarete, whose family name has not been established. Both were only specifically mentioned in the year 1505. It is certain that her father sent the five-year-old Katharina to the Benedictine cloister in Brehna in 1504 for education. This is documented in a letter from Laurentius Zoch to Martin Luther, written on October 30, 1531. This letter is the only evidence for Katharina von Bora's time spent within the monastery. At the age of nine she moved to the Cistercian monastery of Marienthron (Mary's Throne) in Nimbschen, near
Kopil Bora and participated in the cultural extravaganza in the closing function of the 33rd National games, held at Guwahati. Kapil Bora and Nishita Goswami, co-hosted the 3rd Darpan Mrs India North East title, the highly coveted beauty pageant for the married women in the North East, during a glittering function at the Pragjyotika ITA Centre auditorium for performing Arts. In 2010, Kapil Bora provided the background narration for a 21-minute documentary film, "Friends of Kaziranga", which pays tribute to the forest guards of the Kaziranga National Park. Bora also inaugurated a clothes bank at a function held at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok,