His works were first published in the literary journal Grama oozhiyan in 1947.

[2] He was a Marxist by political orientation and a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI).

He was a friend and contemporary of socialist writers like Vallikannan and T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan.

During his years in Thamarai, he was instrumental in discovering and encouraging new writers like Prapanchan, D. Selvaraj, Poomani, Vannadhasan, Tamil Nadan and Jayanthan.

[6] In 2010, the formation of a charitable trust in his name at the Thanjavur Tamil University was announced.