 One of these books is entitled Deutschland- Indiens Hoffnung (Germany – India's Hope – in translation).He also wrote and published articles on various aspects of life in Germany like Education in Germany, etc., in the then-famous Indian magazine, "The Modern Review", of Calcutta.When on 21 February 1918 the Bund der Freunde Indiens (Union of Friends of India) was founded in Berlin for the spreading of knowledge about India, A. R. Pillai along with other prominent Indians including Chempakaraman Pillai, Bhupendranath Datta, Mahendra Pratap and Naik and Germans like Admiral Recke, Hermann von Staden and L. Viereck joined the Bund.