D. Vijayamohan

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D. Vijayamohan
Born(1955-02-28)28 February 1955
Kerala Press Academy V. Karunakaran Nambiar Award
  • 1987 Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram M. Sivaram Award
  • 1995 Malayala Manorama Chief Editor's Gold Medal
  • 2004 Government of Kerala Developmental Journalism Award
  • 2005 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi
  • Award
  • 2007 P. K. Parameshwaran Nair Award
  • D. Vijayamohan (1955–2020) was an Indian journalist, writer and the senior coordinating editor at the Delhi bureau of the

    Kerala Press Academy and the Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi
    Award.

    Biography

    D. Vijayamohan was born on 28 February 1955 at Karingayil Karakkattukonathu house in

    Bengaluru and Government High School, Nedumangad, he secured a bachelor's degree in economics from Mar Ivanios College and followed it up with a master's degree from the University College Thiruvananthapuram.[2] Subsequently, he joined Malayala Manorama in 1978 and worked at their Kozhikode, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram bureaus before moving to the Indian capital in 1985 to join the New Delhi bureau of the newspaper.[3] It was during this time, he obtained a Harry Brittain fellowship of the Commonwealth Press Union and completed higher studies in Journalism in the UK.[4] He was associated with Malayala Manorama ever since.[5]

    Vijayamohan was the founder president of the New Delhi unit of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists.

    Swami Ranganathananda, are his other works.[7]

    During the

    Covid pandemic, Vijayamohan contracted the disease[8] and was hospitalized at St Stephen's Hospital, Delhi and it was here, he died on 15 December 2020, at the age of 65, due to post-Covid complications.[9] He was survived by his wife, S. Jayashree, son, V. M. Vishnu, an advocate and Neenu, his daughter-in-law.[1]

    Awards and honors

    Vijayamohan received the V. Karunakaran Nambiar Award of

    Swami Ranganathananda was selected for P. K. Parameshwaran Nair Award in 2007.[9]

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