 Despite his significant literary output, Lokenath never received the kind of critical attention he deserved in the Bengali literary circle.As Meenakshi Mukherjeer writes in the introduction of her English translation of the book "The Virgin Fish of Babughat", "He remained a writers' writer, discussed in little magazines and exclusive literary journals, forever an outsider in the mainstream literary world of Kolkata.Apart from the unfamiliarity of his imaginative world, the fact that he spent most of his adult life outside Bengal might also have accentuated his alienation."