Returning to Kolkata in 1887, he passed the Arts examination from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta with second division marks.

Meanwhile, between, 1890 and 1893, two of his original essays and two stories, Phuldani (The Flower Vase) and Torquato Tasso, were published.

Khayal Khata (A Scrap Book) was the first piece that appeared under the pen name Birbal in a Bengali journal Bharati in 1902.

In the first issue Chaudhuri explained the magazine's title: The new leaf is green, a wonderful amalgam of aesthetic and spiritual beauty...

The green dynamic mind works a wonderful synthesis between the finite and the infinite, the east and the west[1] 1.