He is best known for creating Tokai, a character symbolizing the poor street boys of Dhaka who lives on picking things from dustbins or begging and having a knack of telling simple yet painful truths about current political and socio-economic situation of the country.

In the early 1950s, his father took him to a painting exhibition, held at the then Bardhaman House (now Bangla Academy).

[citation needed] During 1973–1976, he studied printmaking in Athens School of Fine Arts under the Greek Government's postgraduate scholarship.

Later in the mid 1960s, he became a regular in Shochitro Shandhani where he used to illustrate with cartoons the column Kaal Penchar Dairy by Abdul Gani Hazari.

During 1969, he got involved in a periodical named Forum, published by Rehman Sobhan and Hamida Hossain.