1920 Born on 12th September in Mumbai.

1939-45 Diploma in painting from the Government School of Arts and Crafts, Chennai.

1947-48 Senior Instructor, Painting Department, Government School of Arts and Crafts, Chennai.

1954-69 Exhibition Officer, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.

1956 Contemporary Indian Art exhibition to Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and USSR by the Government of India.

1963 President of India’s Silver plaque at AIFACS exhibition, New Delhi.

1966 IIIrd Venice Biennale, Italy; National award of Lalit Kala Academy,New Delhi; 9th International exhibition of drawings and engravings, Lugano, Switzerland.

1967 IXth Biennale of Sao Paolo, Brazil.

1968 Indian Contemporary Art exhibition, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Vienna and Oslo.

1971 IInd Triennale-India, New Delhi.

1973 25 years of Indian Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.

1978 National Award of the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.

1979 Asian Artists’ exhibition-Part I, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan.

1981 Neue Kunst aus Indien, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, West Germany.

1984 New-Tantra exhibition compiled by NGMA, New Delhi to West Germany.

1985 Exhibition of paintings by Cholamandal Artists to Morocco, Algiers and Egypt by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.

1986 Conferred Fellowship of the Tamil Nadu State Lalit Kala Academy.

1988 Government of India’s Senior Fellowship.

1998 Passes away at Kolkata.