Satyen Maitra came into contact there with scholars and eminent personalities, such as Kalidas Nag, Nilratan Sircar, Dr. Haridhan Datta, Dr. Chunilal Basu, Andrews Pearson, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Sukumar Roy, Saratchandra Challopadhyay, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Satyendranath Bose in his childhood and early boyhood.