 When "The Sunday Leader" started in 1994 Jeyaraj contributed weekly articles from Canada but after a few months stopped due to his workload on the "Muncharie".Following the closure of the "Muncharie" in 1996 Jeyaraj took up freelance writing, writing a weekly column for the "Sunday Island".In 1997 he resumed working for "The Sunday Leader", writing a column called "Searchlight".