Pabitra Kumar Deka attended Nagaon Government High School and earned a degree in Commerce from Nowgong College.
[citation needed] During the same period, he began to translate short stories of foreign writers in Assamese for the magazines Manideep and Nabajug.
He wrote and translated many social and science fiction novels during this period, some of which were also published in the form of Sihote Sar Paise, Vietnam, Mexicor pora aha gabhorujani, Operation Momba, Frankenstein etc.
Deka also wrote many humor articles for the magazine Cartoon, edited by famous painter and filmmaker Pulak Gogoi, another Shree Bhumi publication.
[5] Simultaneously, he also started an amateur theatre group called Aikyatan where he produced plays for two decades, including Janani, Surjastak, Sinhasan Khali, Panchatantra, Hewers of Coal, Upahar, Night of 16th January, Putala Ghar etc.
A music school named Aikyatan Sangeet Vidyalaya was also started in the premises of the club for providing Hindustani classical vocal and tabla and western guitar, violin and mandolin classes.
During this period, he also started an amateur theatre group called Naxa Natya Parishad where he produced plays, including Maxim Gorky’s Enemies, Surjahara and Bertolt Brecht’s Maa.
Besides that, he wrote columns for the daily papers Ajir Batori, Dainik Agradoot and the film journal Chitra Sambad.
He was also associated with All India Radio, Guwahati during 1960s and 1970s where he interviewed many prominent personalities like filmmaker Mrinal Sen, Dr Bhabendra Nath Saikia, singers Usha Mangeshkar, Rita Kothari Ganguly, etc.
Deka was one of those people who promoted the Mobile theatres in his magazine Roopkar to increase its intellectual acceptance and prominence among the classes.
In addition to his job for Sadin, he wrote about the history of world cinema for nearly ten years for Sambhar, a Sunday supplement published with the daily Asomiya Pratidin.