After a long break, Karim resumed writing in 1961, and his first novel, Uttam Purush, earned him the prestigious Adamjee Award.
His fame peaked with the publication of his epic novel Amar Jato Glani in 1973, and he continued to write and publish regularly thereafter.
Two years later Prashanna Pashan instantly turned him into a major novelist of the Bengali language.
The Pakistan movement, which was nourished wholeheartedly by all Muslim people for their identity, takes an upper hand in the novel.
In the novel Karim has delineated the subconscious mind of the humans more acutely than the picture of the society and the compactness of the story.
[4] The second novel of Karim, Prasanno Pashan received similar appraisal from the readers of Bangladesh.
On the eve of her youth Tishna not only sympathised Kamil, rather she loved him: the proof of it is present in the end of the novel.
Though Tishna is presented as the main character, her exposition comes through narration, rather than action – she rarely participates in them; rather she only watches.
On the other hand, Chhotofufu, Tishna's distant aunt Mayna, spans less in the novel but touches more deeply.
In this novel, unlike the earlier two, Karim has been successful in the juxtaposition of psychoanalysis and external society.
The successful use of stream of conscious in the frame of socio-political arena is really praiseworthy in Amar Jato Glani.
Commenting on this novel Zillur Rahman Siddiqui, an eminent poet and critic of the country said: He can visualise the great in the silly, the tiny movement of the soul can take a true picture in his pen and thus Rashid Karim has again proved that he is one of the greatest creative fiction writers of the country.
[4] If we look into his swan song Jibon Moron we will find the presence of some similar incidents that the novelist himself experienced in his own life.
The marriage of the girl imprinted a great shock on his mind and resultantly he gave up any sort of writing.
The shifting of Karim's family to Dhaka from Kolkata is another significant autobiographical element that has taken a large space in his novels.