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Basically interested in the study of history and ethnology, R.M.Paulraj has studied medieval history of Europe, ancient history of the Middle Eastern peoples, and the prehistoric and later migrations of racial groups and their settlement in different parts of the world. Phonetics was an important subject he studied as part of his postgraduate course in English literature.

He has written on various topics in leading English newspapers and other publications in India since 1989. He is also a contributing writer to the online magazine Instablogs.com. His writings have covered international affairs, racial and social problems, the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and the countries that came into being on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and environmental issues.

His flair for the study of languages and comparative linguistics led him to work on the philological similarities he found between the indigenous English and Tamil vocabularies. The findings were compiled into a book titled Key Words of a Kinship (2006, ISBN: 1412012570).