 By 1999 he had stopped writing for the "Sunday Island" and started writing a new column, "Cross Currents", for "The Sunday Leader".He also wrote "The F-Word" column for the paper and the "Minor Matters" column for its sister newspaper, "The Morning Leader".In 2007 he stopped writing for "The Sunday Leader" and moved to "The Nation" and its sister newspaper "The Bottom Line" but a change in ownership forced Jeyaraj to quit in 2008.