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Puravanthuruthil Kurian Abraham has been a journalist, editor and newspaper manager for the last six years. After a long career as manager at FACT (a government of India undertaking), he left it in 1992 (when he was deputy general manager) and joined the more than one hundred year old Deepika, the oldest Malayalam daily. He was Deepika’s MD and editor until April 1996. He took over the ailing Deepika and turned around the organization. He was the founder editor of ten new publications started for Deepika. After leaving Deepika he started a new publishing company (World News) and launched the first midday Malayalam daily, Rashtra Deepthi, from Kochi. Subsequently he rejoined FACT and headed their marketing division as General Manager. Presently he is the Director of MAR ATHANASIOS College For Advanced Studies, Tirvuvalla, which is a leading B and IT – School in Kerala. Abraham holds a Ph D. in economics, and postgraduate degrees in business management and and public administration. He was a member of the Kerala government Press Accreditation Committee. He was also a member of the executive council of the Indian Newspaper Society from 1992 to 1996.