He was also an iconoclast figure who had a close friendship with famous Malayalam film director John Abraham.

Ayyappan, who got intoxicated by the creativity of turning the pain of the homeless into poetry, slept on shop verandas and wrote poems – which were untainted depiction of life.

Ayyappan was also famous as a great lover of sunlight ('veyil' in Malayalam language) and a passionate adherent of Communism.

"Though a bohemian in the tradition of P. Kunhiraman Nair, Malayalam's celebrated poet of yesteryear, Ayyappan was amazingly rigorous in his poetic expression.

But few writers in these times can claim to have had so vast a circle of loving and adoring friends, a large majority of them young men and women.

Her claims were supported by the writer Echmukutty who said he had violated her modesty through inappropriate touch several times.