After passing the Higher Secondary, he moved to Calcutta in 1926 and was admitted to Vidyasagar College with Honors in English.
He also taught in Presidency College[1] and joined the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board as an Assistant Publicity Officer, where he served for 10 years.
Ajit Dutt used to write regularly in Kallol, a popular Bengali literary magazine in the 1930s.
In 1946, the year after the publication of his poem Nosto Chand, his essay "Mon Paboner Nou" continuously published in Desh Patrika under the pen-name of Raibat Chhand.
Ajit Dutt also played a significant role in the founding of the popular literary magazine Kavita, edited by Buddhadev Bose.