Bikash had tasted success early on during his painting career with the Doll series, followed by the Durga series. His first solo exhibition was held in Kolkata in 1965. Along with the paintings depicting hyper-realism, he was also exceptional in portrait paintings and it’s visible in his paintings of other artists like Rabindra Nath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Samaresh Babu, and Indira Gandhi. He also created painted illustrations for a novel on the life of Ramkinker Baij. His works gained an international audience when they were exhibited across the countries and cities like Paris, London, New York, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

He died in 2006.