Unique Times, on our latest episode, brings to you a very unique personality whose life is nothing less than an adventure and an epitome of survival to success. Mr. John Mathew, an 82-year-old veteran, crossed his interesting life through the formation of Kerala state, to his shifting onto Kuwait and the great depressive Kuwait invasion and building up his empire right from the scratch once again. Mathew is an expatriate Indian engineer, who has been working in Kuwait for fifty-seven years, the senior-most and oldest Indian there. The invasion of the sovereign state of Kuwait by Saddam's Iraq destroyed the lives of three million people and Mathew was not an exception. He narrates through a heartbreaking love story and his experience in Kuwait. Apart from being a successful entrepreneur, he is an avid reader and an established author. Let’s hear him and get inspired by his persistent hard work throughout his life.
The Onset
Mr. John Mathew was born in a beautiful village named Ayroor near Kozhenchery. His father, originally a teacher, turned himself into a planter and decided to shift to Kodumon, Adoor, where later he grew up. He had five brothers and three sisters, out of the one him being the youngest. After his school, he did Intermediate Science from St. Berchman’s College, Changanassery. Later, he studied Chemical Engineering at Calicut, in an institute started by the then Madras government. But, he fondly remembers that by the time he reached Calicut, Kerala was formed, in 1956. He bagged the second rank in the state, a CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) scholar and with the scholarship and under the merit nomination, he was offered a job in their facility in Alwaye, the biggest industry in Kerala, FACT.
This story is from the December - January 2020 edition of UNIQUE TIMES.
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