He obtained his intermediate degree from Government Arts College, Coimbatore and his Tamil Vidwan degree from Perur Tamil College.
He is a Marxist by political orientation and is an opponent of Dravidian parties.
He has also translated the works of Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Osho, Dostoevsky and Rabindranath Tagore into Tamil.
[1] Some of his poems have been translated into English, Russian, Hungarian, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Sinhalese.
[2][3][4] His books are available as ebooks at Pustaka Archived 18 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine.