 His house was a meeting place for his friends and relatives.Amongst those from outside the family who visited him regularly were Taraknath Palit, Monomohun Ghose, Satyendraprasanna Sinha, Umesh Bannerjee, Krishna Govinda Gupta, and Behari Lal Gupta, all people of considerable standing in Kolkata's society then.His house on Park Street was the centre of a literary "majlis" (gathering).