Pillai graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering and started his professional career at a Multi-National Company in Chennai, India.
Being interested in literature and politics, he left his formal career behind to pursue writing. And having spent a year and a half, he completed his first piece of work.
S Pillai, besides writing perspective-triggering books, has launched his own magazine, The Zeitgeist. The magazine has the indept details of the events and lookout of the geopolitical issues.