Her iconic poem, "Per Ajie," epitomizes the journey of Indians to the Caribbean, through the eyes of an Indo-Caribbean visualizing her paternal great-grandmother making the voyage on one of the historic migratory ships headed for Guyana.
It was written in a Shakespearean style of language, in order to elevate the topic of Indian indentureship into circles of serious literary critique.
A "critic of Indian racial chauvinism and gender oppression",[2] she was a key member of the British Guiana Dramatic Society during the period from 1929 to 1947.
In the 1970s, she founded The Messenger Group, a Guyanese literary collective created to foster and nurture Indo-Caribbean artists and writers.
Her father was Dr. Jung Bahadur Singh, OBE, a politician, doctor, and philanthropist who founded the British Guiana East Indian Association.