 P. Kunhananandan Nair began his literary career using the pen name "Anand" and his first poem, "Veendum Karayatte" was published in Mathrubhumi.Later, he wrote satires and noted humourist, Sanjayan, who published a few of them in "Vishwadeepam" weekly, suggested the pseudonym, "Thikkodiyan" which he assumed for the rest of his career.He took to writing plays in the early 1950s, while serving as a scriptwriter at the Kozhikode station of the All India Radio.