About this stamp
Teacher, Publisher and Encyclopaedist
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 22 November 2019 for Mathew M. Kuzhiveli (1905–1974), the Malayalam educationist, writer and publisher. He was born on 20 April 1905 at Pala, Kottayam district, studied at St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry, and St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, and took his L.T. degree from the Government Training College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Education
After teaching at Pala, where he was the first principal of the Training School, he moved to Thiruvananthapuram and worked for the Travancore University (now the University of Kerala) as Deputy Superintendent, as the state’s Text Book Officer and as a senator of the university, retiring in 1962 as Director of its Publications Department.
Books for Children
He edited and published periodicals in Malayalam and English, among them School Master, Balan, Vijnanam, Neethi and the weekly Trivandrum Letters. Through his Balan Publications he brought out more than 300 children’s books graded to the age and understanding of their readers, a pioneering idea in Malayalam, and wrote 70 of them himself. From 1956 he worked for eighteen years on the Vijnana Encyclopaedia, published in 1974 in eight volumes, with more than 10,000 pages and 2,000 pictures, spending all his earnings on it. He died on 27 October 1974.
On the Stamp
His portrait in white, against a grey sky with coconut palms, with his name in Hindi and English. It was designed by Alka Sharma; 301,090 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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