After graduating, he returned to Gattey & Bateman, which had been renamed to Coopers & Lybrand, as a clerk. A few years later, he left the firm to become a share registration officer at Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited. In 1971, he began as a freelance songwriter for the Tamil-language
Radio Singapore Children's music programme
Let Us Sing. By the time he had stopped working for Radio Singapore in 1989, he had written over 200 songs for the programme. In 1975,
Flowers of the Heart, a collection of his poems, was published. His second poetry collection,
Mother, was published in 1984. His third,
Addresses, was published in 1990. In 1996, he won the Tamil category of the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award. In 1999, he won the Tamizhavel Award of the
Association of Singapore Tamil Writers. His fourth poetry collection,
Dreams, was published in 2000. He received the
S.E.A. Write Award in 2001. His fifth poetry collection,
Fragrance of Paper, was published in 2003. His sixth poetry collection,
Angels Are On The Earth, was published in 2005. In the same year, he received the Kala Ratna Award from the
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society. A poetry collection which included the English translation of his poems,
The Evening Number and other Poems, was published in 2008. In 2009, he served as the associate editor of the poetry anthology
Fifty on 50. He was among the various writers featured at the 2015
Singapore Writers Festival. ==References==