A doctor of repute, took up writing about 12 years back. He started off by writing in periodicals on subjects: varying from history, society, philosophy to contemporary affairs both in English and his native Bengali. Being a widely travelled man and a humanist living in and visiting many countries and cultures, his writings brought many flavours. His first book in Bengali named 'My Times', a collection of Bengali writings on contemporary issues and travelogue was published about 12 years back. After that he started writing in English and most of his contemporary writings were published in The Statesman and his historical-philosophical writings in the philosophical journal Prabuddha Bharata. His first English fiction The Fallen Leaves: a love story' was published in 2005.