'Sketches by a Watching Owl'), a compilation of satirical social sketches, is another work that is noted for reflecting Bengalee urban society of the time.

The confusion about his year of birth is because researchers initially found his death announcement where it was stated that he died at the age of 29 in 1870.

Joy Krishna was childless for very long, but finally his youngest wife Shibsundari Devi gave birth to their son Nandalal in 1819.

Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar was astonished to see how this young boy could mingle with so many elderly associates and lead them towards recreational pursuits such as organisation of the theatres.

Sunil Gangopadhyay, in his epoch making novel Sei Somoy (Those Days), recreated the same period with Kaliprasanna as the symbolic character, his name in this historical fiction being Nabinkumar.

He had contribution in different fields as an author, editor, a publisher, a philanthropist, a social worker, and a great patron of art, literature and culture.

Eminent gentlemen like Kristo Das Pal, Acharya Krishna Kamal Bhattacharya, Peary Chand Mitra, and Radhanath Sikdar were associated with it.

According to a witness, "The performance of 'Sakuntala' at Simla was, however a failure, This is not to be wondered at; for Sakuntala being a masterpiece of dramatic genius, requires versatile and consummate talent for its representation, rarely to be met with in this country."

Later on Kaliprasanna enacted the play Benisanhar, which received a warm response and the performance was praised in Samvad Prabhakar.

Through Vidyotsahini Sabha he felicitated Michael Madhusudan Dutt for introducing blank verse in Bengali poetry.

In this book he criticised the activities of the then middle class societies in a humorous manner under the pseudonym Hootum Pyancha.

After the death of Harish Chandra Mukherjee in 1861, the magazine dedicated to welfare of native Indians, was facing extinction due to want of money.

James Long, an Anglican priest of the Church Missionary Society was accused of sedition for translating the controversial Nil Darpan, a Bengali-language play written by Dinabandhu Mitra criticising the treatment of Indian ryots by European indigo merchants Kaliprasanna paid the entire amount of a Rs 1000 fine which was imposed on Rev.

Kaliprasanna however incurred huge financial crisis during the last few days of his life as he had no control on expenditure and there was no end to his donations.

In his last days, he was learnt to run into huge debts, and the large estates in Orissa and Bengal Club in Kolkata were sold.

After his death Kristo Das Pal wrote "But beneath the troubled waters of youth there was a silvery current of geniality, generosity, good-fellowship and high mindedness, which few could behold without admiring.

With all his faults Kaliprasunno was a brilliant character and we cannot adequately express our regret that a career begun under such glowing promises should have come to such an abrupt and unfortunate close.