Always present during student protests, reciting his revolutionary poetry at such occasions, and otherwise at Ganga Dhaba, was a common sight.

He was vocal against state repression, persecution of marginalised section of society and crackdown on voice of dissenting opinion.

A documentary Main tumhara Kavi Hoon has been published on his life and work on 20 September 2015, almost three months before his death.

He came to New Delhi and got enrolled as a PhD candidate in the Hindi department of the Jawaharlal Nehru University,[2] where once again, he was rusticated for similar reasons.

He is known, and not only by JNU regulars, for his poetry, people's poetry, but also a lot for the lifestyle he had chosen - a life devoid of almost any material possession, his clothes, in most cases bought by others, being the only exception - the trees of JNU, the corners of its hostels, the benches of its dhabas and the office of its student union his only abode.