[2] At the age of 16, Umaru Pulavar stole the national limelight by winning a literary debate with Vallai Varundhi, a renowned poet from North India.
[3] PF Nazeer, one of his last heirs with some unpublished work poems died recently of cancer.
He was requested by Seethakaathi to pen Seerapuranam, considered to be one of the best works in Tamil Muslim literature until date, depicting the biography of Nabi.
His memorial at Ettayapuram in Tuticorin district was renovated by the government of Tamil Nadu and was declared open by the then Speaker of legislative assembly and the then ministers.
[5] The Islamiya ilakkiya kazhagam gives award every year to eminent Tamil scholars in the name of Umaru Pulavar.