V Madhusoodanan Nair reciting Malayalam poem, Vakku, at Malayalam Aikya Vedi seminar at Kollam The family lives in Devaswom Board Junction, Thiruvananthapuram. Malathi Devi and the couple has two daughters, Rashmi and Ramya and a son, Vishnu. Xavier's College, Thiruvananthapuram as a faculty from where he superannuated from service as the Professor and Head of the Department of Malayalam. Later, he shifted to academics by joining St. He started his career as a journalist, working at Kumkumam magazine and Veekshanam daily and also as a program announcer at the Thiruvananthapuram station of the All India Radio before working as a sub-editor at Kerala Bhasha Institute. Subsequently, he graduated from Mahatma Gandhi College and earned a master's degree from the University College Thiruvananthapuram. His early schooling was at the local schools in Neyyattinkara and Kotturkonam after which he passed a pre-degree course from Velu Thampi Memorial Nair Service Society College. He imbibed quite early the tradition of many a ritualistic song from his father, who was a reciter of Thottam Pattu. Madhusoodanan Nair was born on Februat Aruviyodu, a small riverside village near Neyyattinkara, in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the south Indian state of Kerala to N.