He takes pride in being a student of Alliance française de Kolkata, (now ‘du Bengale’) from where he did his diplôme and diplôme supérieur from 1988 to 1992. Subsequently, he did his Masters in French from CIEFL (now EFLU), Hyderabad in 1995. In 1997, he got a 100% scholarship awarded by the French government and went to Montpellier to do his D.E.A (in Modern Literature) from l’Université Paul Valéry.