Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and wrote more than one hundred novels and short stories.

[1] Set in the last years of the nineteenth century, the novel tells the story of the sumptuous lifestyle and the decay of a feudal family.

It is the story of Pateshwari, aka Chhoto Bou, a woman who wants to experience romance, to be a real wife, to invent for herself and live a new kind of conjugality.

One of his novelettes Char Chokher Khela is based on the lives of the Anglo-Indian population of Chakradharpur railway colony.

[citation needed] Mitra died on 2 December 1991, at his residence named "Baansh Bhavan" in Chetla, South Calcutta.