 Beryl suffered from mental illness in the 1940s and was confined to hospitals and mental asylums.Returning to India in 1934, he practiced as a Barrister for a few months, and in 1936 joined "The Times of India" as a journalist, was promoted to junior assistant editor in 1938, and worked in Burma and China as the war correspondent for "The Times" between 1942–1945.Between 1946–1949, Moraes was based in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as editor of "The Times Ceylon" and "The Morning Standard".