He started his journalist career with
Bengali daily
Jugantar and thereafter joined in Anandabazar Patrika in the 1960s. Sarkar became associate editor of
Anandabazar Patrika. He was in charge of the editorial page and Monday column named
Kalkatar Karcha (Notebook of Kolkata). His numerous books were published under the pseudonym Sripantha. Sarkar worked on sub-altern history of
Kolkata as well as
Bengali culture. He was awarded the
Ananda Puraskar in 1978. ==List of major works==