He was trained by the Australian administrator Clifford Dodd who came to work for Radio Ceylon under the Colombo Plan and by Livy Wijemanne.
Mylvaganam belonged to that select band of announcers of Radio Ceylon who enjoyed iconic status in South Asia.
He and his wife were the catalysts who brought MGR and Saroja Devi to Sri Lanka on his first visit in October 1965, to judge a beauty pageant in Kandy, sponsored by the Independent Newspapers Ltd.
It still remains very vividly in many people's memory the day MGR and Saroja Devi visited Mylvaganan's residence in Colombo.
In an Indian film titled Naan Kanda Sorgam (நான் கண்ட சொர்க்கம்), the comedian Thangavelu goes to heaven and when he meets God Indira he tries to show him the western song and he tunes the Radio the first thing he hears is the voice of Mylvaganam and says "Oh!