Umapodo Bhattacharjyo, the principle of the local high school, taught him pure classical music.
[1] He also received training in pure classical songs under Onathnath Basu and Biddyut Biswas.
[1] He joined the Song Publicity Department and was enlisted at the Kolkata Radio Station.
[1] After 1947, he settled in the then East Pakistan and joined the radio station as an enlisted artiste.
From 1956 to 1964, he lived in erstwhile West Pakistan where he taught at the Nazrul Academy, in Karachi.