A prolific writer, she started her professional career as an author from 1980, first in “Anandamala”, a juvenile magazine, then in “Desh” and other periodicals of the time.

She is known as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and writings for children and teenagers.

[3] The broad range of her fiction deals with gender, history, mythology, society, psychology, adolescence, music, sexual orientation, the supernatural, and more.

Her major works include Swet Pātharer Thālā (A Plate of White Marble),[4][5] Ekushe Pā (Turning Twenty One), Maitreya Jātak (published as The Birth of the Maitreya by Stree), Gāndharvi, Pancham Purush (The Fifth Generation) and Ashtam Garbha (The Eighth Pregnancy).

She is also the recipient of the Sushila Devi Birla Award and the Sahitya Setu Puraskar.