Narayana Pillai left the clerk in the Travancore Police Department and joined the Indian independence movement.

The early Socialist Organization, Youth League under the leadership of Kelappan, started with the song written by the Amsi.

In 1930, a group of 25 people under leadership of Ponnara Sridhar, N.C Shekhar and Amsi Narayana Pillai stated a march from Trivandrum to join the Salt Satyagraha in Kozhikode.

The Thrissur Magistrate Court has summoned Amshi for participation in the Salt Satyagraha and the writing of the revolutionary song.

He composed the "Gandhi Ramayana" a modern version of the great Indian epic depicting Gandhiji as Rama, the nation as Sita and the British Government as Ravana.