Ghosh taught at many educational institutions, including
Bangabasi College,
City College (all affiliated to the University of Calcutta) and at
Jadavpur University,
Jangipur College,
Berhampore Girls' College all in
Kolkata and
West Bengal. He retired from Jadavpur University in 1992. In 1967, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the
University of Iowa in
Iowa City, IA. He also taught at
Delhi University, the
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies at
Shimla, and at the
Visva-Bharati University. He won many awards including
Jnanpith Award in 2016. His pen name was
Kuntak. Among the most respected names in contemporary Bengali literature, Ghosh was one of the '
Pancha Pandavas' — along with
Shakti Chattopadhyay,
Sunil Gangopadhyay,
Binoy Majumdar and
Utpal Kumar Basu — who gave a new identity to the Bengali literary world. Ghosh was a member of the
Social Network for Assistance to People (informally Association SNAP) that published a ground-breaking survey in 2014 that revealed the extent of poverty among the Muslim community of
West Bengal. == Death ==