Saturday, July 31, 2010

Malayala Manorama Chief Editor K.M. Mathew passes away

Kottayam : K.M. Mathew, Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama passed away here this morning. He was 93 years old.

He is survived by sons Mammen Mathew, Editor, Malayala Manorama, Philip Mathew, Managing Editor and Jacob Mathew, Executive Editor. His daughter Thangam is married to C.P. Mammen, managing director of Cochin Computers.

After embalming, his body would be brought to his residence at Kanjikuzhi by about 1 pm on Sunday.

Mr. Mathew's body would be taken to the Malayala Manorama headquarters on Monday at 1 pm for the public to pay homage.

The funeral will take place at 4 pm at the Puthenpalli cemetery on the same day.

Mr. Mathew was a former chairman of Press Trust of India.

The Funeral will take place at Puthenpally church cemetery here tomorrow.

Mr. Mathew had played a key role in making Malayala Manorama one of the major Indian language dailies after he took over the reins of the media house a few decades ago.

Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan, leaders of all political parties and people from different walks of life expressed profound grief at the passing away of Mr. Mathew.

Born on January two, 1917, Mathew joined the organisation as Managing Editor in 1954 and became chief editor in 1973.

Mathew launched many publications such as the women's magazine Vanitha in Malayalam and English, the English magazine The Week, the farmer's magazine Karshakasree, children's magazines Balarama Amar Chitra Katha and Kalikudukka in Malayalam and Magic Pot in English and encyclopedic Manorama Year Book in Malayalam, English, Hindi Tamil and Bengali.

In 1988 he received the Padma Bhushan. He has received many other awards including Foundation of Freedom of Information Award (1991), National Citizen's award (1992), Ramakrishna Jay Dayal award (1995), Durga Prasad Chaudhary award (1996), B. D. Goenka Award (1996).
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