In 1930, he obtained a first-class master's degree in English literature from the Presidency College, Chennai.
He went to the Oxford University for higher studies and returned to India in 1934, after which he joined the DAV College in Lahore, beginning his decades-long career as a distinguished academic.
With his government service ending in 1959, he was forced to seek non-government employment in his mid-forties.
[4] He then translated the mystical poems of Andal and other Alwars in the Vaishnavite Bhakti tradition.
In the final years of his life, he translated the 12,000-odd verses of the Kamba Ramayanam into English.