 He died on June 15, 1949, aged 72.Iyer assumed his name, Ulloor, after the place of his ancestral home.Unlike the other two members of the modern triumvirates, Kumaran Asan and Vallathol Narayana Menon, who were romanticists, Ulloor was known to be a classicist and his works were marked by Sanskrit words, mythological references, satirical undertones and scholarship.