POSITIONS HELD

  1. Visited USSR as member of an Indian Writers Delegation to participate in       the 150th birth anniversary of Tolstoy.

  2. Member,  Executive  Board  of  the  Sahitya  Akademi,  New  Delhi  from      1982-86.

  3. Represented India in the Struga Poetry Festival, Yugoslavia (1987).

  4. Attended CISAC Asian Conference in Singapore(1990).

  5. Visited USA to participate in FOKANA Conference(1993).

  6. Visited USA to inaugurate literary seminar in Kerala Centre, New York      (1995).

  7. Presented poems on Beethoven and Mozart in the Department of       German, Bonn University.

  8. Chairman, Kerala Kalamandalam - the State Akademi of Classical       performing Arts(1996).

  9. Indian delegate to the CISAC World Conference held in Berlin (1998).

  10. Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Academy in 1999.