Education He graduated from Dharwad, and served as a high-school teacher at Bankikodla and Gokarna from 1937 to 1976.
Achievements Kaikini has been honored with number of prestigious awards. He was honored with the Ideal Teacher award in 1973. He was bestowed with the diamond jubilee award of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Vardhamana Prashasti, Sahitya Academy Award, Karnatak University"s honorary doctorate degree, Karnataka Rajyotstava Prashasti, Doctor Sham Bha Forum Prashanti, Mangalore Sandesh Prashanti and Konkani Sahitya Prashasti for his Konkani work Meenakshi. An organization has been set up in his name and writers in Kannada literature are conferred with awards every year from the organization.