He is well known for his bold stands in the fight for justice for Dalits, Tribals and minority communities.
He was the first public figure in Kerala to take a stand against the arrest of Abdul Nazer Mahdani.
[citation needed] He began working in the Commonwealth Trust Weaving Mill in Kozhikode at the age of 16 in 1946.
[1] In 2019 he signed a joint human right statement for the release of Student Activist Rinshad Reera.
To subsist, he made and sold umbrellas, a craft he learned in 1955 to raise funds for buying a band set for the Communist Party in Kozhikode.