He is a poet, lyricist, documentary filmmaker, screen writer and translator. His three collections of poetry established him as one of the prominent voices in contemporary Indian poetry. His poems have been translated into various Indian and foreign languages. He has won two international awards and a state award for the screenplay of Margam, the feature film he has co-written, and won Kerala State Academy Award for Mehboob Express, his third collection of poems. Call from the Other Shore, a biopic on Attoor Ravivarma, the renowned Malayalam poet, is his first independent documentary film. He participated in the Writer-in-Residence Program of Literature Translation Institute, South Korea in 2007 and has represented Malayalam poetry at various national and international writers’ meets and festivals.