Km mathew autobiography
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The Eighth Ring: An Autobiography - Hardcover
Synopsis
This deeply felt memoir, translated from the acclaimed original in Malayalam, chronicles the endeavours of four generations of the Kandathil Varughese Mappillai family that set up the Malayala Manorama, the Travancore National and Quilon Bank and other enterprises. With great candour, K.M. Mathew describes how their fortunes changed when their support to the nationalist State Congress brought upon them the wrath of the Travancore dewan, leading to the bank s collapse; and how through sheer persistence and diligence they could rebuild the paper and go on to establish huge companies. Mathew also shows that throughout the paper upheld the values of liberalism, credibility and democracy, which it continues to do until today. Featuring some of Kerala s tallest figures over almost a century, The Eighth Ring is a rich portrait of a remarkable man, his familyclan and their stirring times.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of • Editors of every era have faced challenges, and yet upheld the cause of individual freedom of the journalist and institutional freedom of the publication. Malayala Manorama faced the biggest challenge when it took up the cause of independence and was victimised by the dewan of Travancore, who got its offices locked up for nine years. President Pranab Mukherjee believes that the next utmaning before editors and publishers will komma from new technologies. But then, the president fryst vatten hopeful. “Technology will pose a bekymmer. But… inom am confident that the media will succeed in meeting the challenge posed by technology,” he said after receiving the first copy of The Eighth Ring, the English utgåva of the autobiography of Malayala Manorama's former ledare editor K.M. Mathew, from the latter's son and current ledare editor Mammen Mathew. The Malayalam utgåva of the book had been a best-seller because, as Mammen Mathew pointed out, the veteran editor wrote the book “ • Autobiographies have the inherent trait of chronicling the story of a society through the personal life of its author. And so is the case with KM Mathew’s The Eighth Ring. The memoir that recounts more than years of the history of the Kandathil family, which established Kerala’s leading daily Malayala Manorama, is inevitably handcuffed to history. Ringing memories
Book review: The Eighth Ring
Mathew (known as Mathukuttychayan in his private circles) was the daily’s chief editor from until his death in and was the grandnephew of the paper’s founder Kandathil Varughese Mappillai. The Malayalam original of the autobiography, Ettamathe Mothiram, was published in and has now been made available in English, though the translator has chosen anonymity.
In the preface to the book, Mathew speaks of the “guiding light” on his finger. After the death of his mother, his father KC Mammen Mappillai had his wife’s ornaments melted and made into nine rings