He then began attending the Umar Pulavar Tamil School on Maxwell Road.
A few years later, he left the firm to become a share registration officer at Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited.
In 1971, he began as a freelance songwriter for the Tamil-language Radio Singapore Children's music programme Let Us Sing.
[1] In 1995, his poem Water was selected for display in MRT trains by the National Arts Council.
[1] In the same year, he served as the editor of the poetry anthology Rhythms, and Water was selected for display at the Expo 2000 at the Goethe Institute in Hanover.
In the same year, he received the Kala Ratna Award from the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society.