Background
Kundu was born in Dinajpur district to his parents Gnanendranath Kundu and Binapani Kundu.
Kundu was born in Dinajpur district to his parents Gnanendranath Kundu and Binapani Kundu.
Kundu graduated from Dhaka Art College (now the Institute of Fine Arts) in 1959.
He founded the furniture company Otobi. He was the fourth among seven siblings. In the years leading up to 1971, he worked at the United States Information Service (United States Information Service) in Dhaka designing exhibits and graphics.
During the Bangladesh, Kundu worked with the artist Quamrul Hassan at the public relations department of the Bangladesh Government-in-Exile at Mujibnagar.
In collaboration with Hassan and a group of notable artists namely Debdas Chakraborty, Nasir Biswas, Pranesh Mandal and Biren Shome. Kundu worked on numerous posters and works of art aimed at arousing the newly formed Mukti Bahini liberation army and also raising awareness of the genocide being unleashed by the Pakistan Army on the people of Bangladesh.
lieutenant was during this period he designed two posters which became among the most recognized works of art produced during the war. The was the inspiration for Kundu"s most famous work, the sculpture Shabash Bangladesh, a tribute to the fallen freedom fighters of the Mukti Bahini.
This is situated on the campus of Rajshahi University.
In the 1975, following a brief stint at Bitopi advertising agency, Kundu established his own company, a furniture store featuring his own designs, Otobi. Within a relatively short period, Otobi became the most prominent Bangladeshi furniture brand. He started the company with an initial investment of 5000 taka.