Appointed as a trainer in 1997, she has led teaching and researches at NIE, concerned primarily with subjects including Standard Spoken Tamil, Teaching Tamil as a second language, Tamil pedagogy for the Tamil Diaspora, Sociolinguistics and the Development of Tamil Language & Literature through Mass Media. She had worked at the Tamil Murasu newspaper as a sub-editor (1991-1992) and as teacher for Tamil language (1993-1997). Her research book Standard Spoken Tamil and Pedagogy (2009), co-authored with Dr Vanithamani Saravanan, received the Karigaalan Award (Karigaalan Virudhu) from the Tanjore Tamil University and Mustafa Tamil Trust as the best Tamil book published in Singapore for the year 2009.