Singaram was born on 12 August 1920 as the third son of Ku.Pazhanivel Nadar and Unnamalai Ammal in a town called Singampunari in present-day Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu.
After the end of World War II, he and some other Tamils obtained the approval of the Indonesian government to load cargo in ships bound for Penang, Malaysia.
He came back to India in September 1946 and lived in Madurai, working at the local Dina Thanthi newspaper office till he took voluntary retirement in 1987.
During his second stay in Medan, Singaram didn't get his share of Tamil magazines, as ship transport between India and Indonesia was stopped.
In his later years when asked whether he is aware of the present Tamil writers and their works he commented it lacked depth and he couldn't read past two pages of Sujatha and Sivasankari P Singaram wrote this novel in 1950 immediately after he returned to India.
Several notable film-makers have expressed their desire [4] to make this epic novel into a movie but conceding it's an impossible task to do justice to this book.
Writers Konangi, N. Murugesa Pandian, S. Ramakrishnan and many others met Singaram in his last years of life and told him in person how much they were moved by his works.