He is well known in Bengali literature for the series stories of Pandab Goenda.
[1][2] Chattopadhyay was born in Khurut, Sasthitala in Howrah district on 9 March 1941.
He published his first literary work Kamakhya Bhraman in Dainik Basumati in 1961 and started working at Anandabazar Patrika under the guidance of Ramapada Chowdhury and Sagarmoy Ghosh.
In the meantime, he joined the Indian Railway and was posted at Ghatshila.
He wrote many novels, travelogue, and short stories, but became popular and gained recognition for the creation of Pandab Goenda, an adventure detective series for children.