After retiring from full time academia, he pursued a legal career as an Advocate and Solicitor in the Malaysian High Courts, having obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Honours degree as an external candidate at the University of London in 1989 and called to the Bar on 24 November 1995.
[4] His notable works include The Ramayana Tradition in South-East Asia,[5] The Social Life of the Tamils[6] and Thirukkural Trilingual[7] (a classic Indian text translated into English and Malay).
He was one of the first lecturers in University Malaya to teach Indian Studies courses in Bahasa Malaysia (the Malay language) in addition to the requisite Tamil and English, which enabled a wider stream of students to pursue courses such as Tamil Culture and Civilisation in Malaysia's national language.
Under the guidance of his mentor Professor Xavier Thaninayagam, he began researching links between Indian culture and South East Asia.
His Ph.D. thesis on the Ramayana Tradition compared in detail the original literary Ramayana of Valmiki version in Sanskrit with the later Tamil version of Kambaramayanam, the Malay literary version Hikayat Seri Rama and the Thai Ramakien of King Rama I. Singaravelu died on 13 January 2020 at his home in Petaling Jaya, Selangor at the age of 83.