V. K. Madhavan Kutty was an eminent journalist from the state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

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. He was long associated with the Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.-History:...

 newspaper, a Malayalam daily based out of Kozhikode

Kozhikode

Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...

. He was stationed at New Delhi

New Delhi

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 as Chief of Bureau for most of his career. He was well known among the journalism circles in the Capital owing to his astute professionalism and efficiency. He retired as the editor of Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.-History:...

 after serving 40 years for the same. He was also one of the founding directors of the Malayalam satellite channel Asianet

Asianet

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. Madhavankutty miraculously survived an aircrash which killed Union Minister Mohan Kumaramangalam

Mohan Kumaramangalam

Surendra Mohan Kumaramangalam was an Indian politician and communist theorist who was a member of the Indian National Congress, and later, the Communist Party of India. He served as a member of Lok Sabha for Pondicherry from 1971 to 1972.- Early life and education:Mohan Kumaramangalam was born in...

 and several others in 1973.

Literary works

Apart from many in-depth articles, V K Madhavankutty has also authored several Malayalam & English novels. Some of his works are

• Asrikaram
• Ormakalute Virunnu
• Orttucollan: Malayalattinte Priyappetta Kavyasakalannal
• Oru Malayali Patrapravarttakante ormmakkurippukal
• The Unspoken Curse
• The Village before Time

He was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

 and Padmashree(2002) by the Government of India.

Death

Shri. V K Madhavankutty breathed his last on November 1, 2005 following a cardiac arrest in New Delhi

New Delhi

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