As of 2021, He is the only Indian volleyball player to have participated in the World Championship and the Asian Games.

[citation needed] Bharathan Nair made his senior national debut in 1955.

[3] He was part of the Indian team that won a bronze medal at the 1958 Asian Games and he also played in the 1956 World Volleyball Championship in Paris.

[3] Bharathan captained the Services team when it won the national title in Allahabad in 1956.

[3] In 2020, the Changanassery Municipal Council passed a resolution to name a road in Bharathan Nair's birthplace after him.