• Member of the Jury, Sahitya Akademi Award (for Translations) 1999 & 2000

• 2004 21 th January Seminar on Literary Critician Organized by Sahitya    Akademi hosted by Dept. of English, M.S.U, Tirunelveli Presented the Keynate    address in the session on post sirpi.

• 2004 8th March seminar on “ Indian Short Fiction” organized by sahitya    Akademi and the Dept of Tamil Studies, M.K.U, Madurai chaired the sessin    and presented a paper on “Negotiating Life Through Fiction”.

• 2004 17th April S.P. Narasimhulu Naidu’s 150th Birth Anniversary Celebration    and Book release Organised by Sahitya Akademi at Annasalai, Chennai and    delivered the Presidential Address.

• Coordinator, 3-day Seminar on “Western Literary Theory and Tamil Literary    Criticism” organized by the Department of English and Sahitya Akademi    Chennai during Jan21-23, 2004

•  Presented a paper on Myth, Geography and Literature at the seminar on     Literature and Geography organized by Sahitya Akademi at Tirur,Kerala.

• National Seminar on “Transition and Pioneers of Indian Literature” organized    by Konkani Bhasa Mandal and Sahitya Akademi held at Mumbai during April    3-4, 2004

• “Significant Authors in Tamil” Project for Central Sahitya Akademi New Delhi.

• Executive Committee Member. Sahitya Akademi (Academy of Letters) Ministry    of Culture, Government of India.

Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters):

General Council Member of the akademi

Executive Committee of the Akademi

Member Editorial Board Emcyclopaedui of Indian Poetics

convenor Editor History of Tamil Literature 3 volumes

Editor Literary Theory and Tamil Literary Criticism