Senior financial journalist Mony K. Mathew, who retired as senior assistant editor at The Hindu BusinessLine, died of a heart attack here early Tuesday morning. He was 66.
Mathew started his career as a trainee journalist at The Indian Express in Mumbai in the late 1970s and later moved to Hyderabad as senior sub-editor at the Express. He used to write on culture, cinema and sports before opting for financial journalism and moving to The Financial Express at Chennai.
He was chief of bureau and later resident editor of The Financial Express, Chennai.
He joined The Hindu BusinessLine at Thiruvananthapuram in 1995s where he excelled in reporting on public-sector undertakings, public finance and State budgets. After a long innings at Thiruvananthapuram, he moved to Kozhikode and retired from BusinessLine in 2012.
Mathew is survived by wife Daisey Mony, who was an assistant registrar at Calicut University and sons Anish K. Mony (software engineer, Cognizant, Chennai) and Ajith K. Mony (electrical engineer, Daifuku India, Bengaluru) and daughter-in-law Dr. Shona Raju (KMCT Dental College, Kozhikode).
The funeral will be held at St. Mary’s Church, Kohinoor, near the Thenjippalam campus of Calicut University, at 3 pm on Wednesday.