 After schooling in Delhi, he joined a pre-medical course, but he left the course as well as his home when ran away to Kolkata, where he did some odd jobs to earn living.However he returned to Delhi and joined the Congress Socialist Party and also appointed sub-editor of a Hindi short story magazine, and subsequently as an editor of "Mazdoor Awaz" magazine, eventually joining the Communist Part of India in 1948.Meanwhile, he started taking evening classes at the Delhi Polytechnic, Kashmere Gate, where he trained under artists Sailoz Mukherjee and Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal.