brahma wrote several poems, songs including hymns and plays which started with "boroni gudi sibsa arw aroj", a book of hymns and prayers written in bodo language. his other works included "khonthai methai" (poems and lyrics–1923), "boroni gudi sipsa arw aroj" (bodo hymn and prayer songs–1926), raimali (drama–1926), "dimapur nwgwr bainai" (the fall of dimapur, drama), "sadang bairagi" (sadang, the sanyasi, drama), "rupesri raithai khantai" (rupesri- poems and prose–1988) and "phangseao bibar barnwi" (two flowers in the branch). some of his works are prescribed texts for school curriculum and civil services examination. the government of india awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of padma shri in 1988.