He then attended Jadavpur University, Calcutta, where he completed masters degrees in English, philosophy and Sanskrit, and then a PhD in comparative literature under professors Subodh Chandra Sengupta, Jagannath Chakravorty, and Sisir Kumar Chatterjee.

His doctoral thesis, The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics was submitted to Jadavpur University and was published by Rupa & Co., Calcutta in 1977.

He has also published fiction in Odia, including two short story books, Sulataku Sesa Chitthi (The Last Letter to Sulata) and Shatabdira Shabda (The Sound of the Millennium), two poetry books, Manapatra (Citation) and Nihshabda Asavari (The Silent Raga), and four character plays on Kabi Bansiballabha, Pallikabi Nandakishore, and patriots Jayee Rajguru and Chakhi Khuntia.

He has translated some major Western works into Odia like Aristotle'nka Kabyatattwa (Aristotle's Poetics with an introduction, commentary, critical study and notes); Greek Nataka (Greek Dramas of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound', Sophocles's 'Oedipus the King', Euripides's 'Medea' and Aristophanes's 'The Frogs' with commentary and critical notes); and Jagannath Chakraborty'nka Kabita (Poems of Jagannath Chakraborty).

The Kendriya Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), Delhi has published his monographs on medieval Sanskrit poetician and grammarian Vishvanatha Kaviraja, medieval philosopher of religion Sridhara Svami and post-Chaitanya philosopher of religion Baladeva Vidyabhusana under its Makers of Indian Literature series.