After education, he embarked on a career as an FACT employee from which he retired as the Deputy General Manager in 1989.
He has worked in various newspapers, dailies and magazines like The Hindu, Dhinamani Kadhir, Ananda Vikadan, and Hindustan.
It includes an essay on the Dhvani theory which argues that Dhvani is the same as metaphor in the broad sense of the term, an essay on the ideological underpinnings of some short stories and essays on T. Padmanabhan and Paul Zacharia.