 He inspired many brilliant students over the years, notable among them are painter Jahar Dasgupta, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, K.G.Subramanyan , Beohar Rammanohar Sinha , sculptor & printmaker Somnath Hore, designer Riten Majumdar and filmmaker Satyajit Ray.In 1949, he left "Kala Bhavan" and joined as a curator at the Nepal Government Museum in Kathmandu.