Lawrence Sundaram in his book Anjali mentions "Apart from his brilliance as a scholar and writer, Mr Ruthnaswamy was a man of solid personal religious faith....He had an intellectual sharpness of a Newman... Adjectives like "pious" or "devoted"or exemplary" are too weak to describe the manly robustness with which he practised his religious beliefs. An untiring reader of books on all subjects he wrote and spoke with a command of his matter, that came from the vastness of his reading and his assimilation of it. His mind was alert when his body was enfeebled even at the age of 93 and till the end he wielded his pen with a mastery that others could envy from a great distanceV. Lawrence Sundaram SJ "Anjali" Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, Anand, Gujarat (1993)
