He worked with notable people of the time such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, and Motilal Nehru.

He was the first to write a daily political column for five decades, called 'Over A Cup of Tea', sprinkled with Biblical and Dickensian quotes.

He also discovered and nurtured the Indian cartoonist Shankar, helping to make political cartoons a staple of newspapers.

He quickly abandoned ideas of a legal career, became a writer for the Hyderabad Bulletin and finally found his calling when he joined The Bombay Chronicle in 1918, then edited by B.G.

[1] Pothan served as the president of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists for numerous years.