His works Murugan the Tiller (1927) and Kandan The Patriot (1932) [1] had received considerable appreciation and Venkataramani was the subject of a biography by N. S. Ramaswami.
He studied law at the Presidency College, Madras and settled down in the suburb of Mylapore where he built a profession as a lawyer.
In his early career, Venkataramani apprenticed under the legal giant Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer.
Throughout his life, Venkataramani campaigned for rural upliftment and wrote many monologues on the subject.
At the age of 16, he gave an eloquent speech protesting the Partition of Bengal and the same was published in the magazine The Indian Patriot.