He completed his SSLC and worked as a teacher and then as a clerk in the registrar office.
His first short story Urakkam Kolluma was published in Ananda Bodhini in 1943.
He was a friend and contemporary of Vallikannan, Pudumaipithan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan.
Alagirisamy kathaigal was published in 1952 with a foreword from Kalki Krishnamurthy.
He worked at Soviet Nadu for a few months until his death.