The eighth ring an autobiography

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.

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.

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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