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HE WHO SPOKE TRUTH TO POWER
The New Indian Express
|October 04, 2025
VETERAN journalist, writer and columnist, who was Director of Express Publications (Madurai) Private Limited and Editorial Advisor to The New Indian Express, Thayil Jacob Sony George-popularly known as TJS George or TJS passed away on Friday afternoon at a private hospital in Bengaluru.
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He was 97. He is survived by his son Jeet Thayil and daughter Sheba Thayil. His wife Ammu George died in January this year.
Family members informed that TJS was ailing from agerelated problems for some time, with his condition deteriorating over the last two months.
He was admitted to Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru last week, and had undergone a minor surgery from which he was recovering. However, complications set in on Thursday and Friday, when he suffered two cardiac arrests, respectively, the second from which he did not recover. TJS passed away at 4.30 pm on Friday.
TJS was born on May 7, 1928, as the fourth child of Thayil Thomas Jacob, a magistrate, and Chachiamma Jacob, and went on to graduate from the Madras Christian College with an Honours in English Literature before embarking on his journalistic career.
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