 He was inspired by writers G. P. Rajarathnam and M. V. Seetharamiah who were his teachers at high school.He was a post-graduate in Geology who worked as an Assistant Geologist in The Mysore Mines and Geology at Gulbarga before coming in touch with Kuvempu and was invited to the Kannada poets' meet during Dasara festival in 1959.He worked as a lecturer in Geology in Central College, Bangalore and then in Chitradurga.