In 2012 September, he replaced eminent historian Bipan Chandra to become the chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi. Widely travelled, he had attended many international conferences both on banking and literature in various countries. He was also on the board of the State Bank of Travancore for a period of three years after his retirement. He served as the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SIB from 1999 until his retirement in 2005. After holding many important positions in the Group, he took over as General Manager in the Corporation Bank and later as the Chairman of the South Indian Bank, a major private sector bank of the country. He joined the banking profession as a Probationary Officer in the State Bank Group. Then he worked in Railway Board, New Delhi for a couple of years before switching over to the banking industry in 1968. Subsequently, he was promoted and posted to the newlyĮstablished Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune. In 1964 he took a transfer to Trivandrum and worked in the Meteorological Unit of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. The Indian Meteorological Department in Bombay in 1962. He worked in certain Central Government departments in North India before joining This phase of his life was instrumental in shaping his literary sensibilities and came to be reflected in many of his important works. Sethu began his professional career at a very young age taking him to various parts of the country.
He had his school education at Paliam High School, Chendamangalam, and took his bachelor's degree in physics from the Union Christian College, Aluva, at the age of 18. Sethu was born in Chendamangalam, a village in Ernakulam district, in the year 1942.
In 2022, he won the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, highest literary honour of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. He also served as the chairman and CEO of the South Indian Bank. Sethu's other literary works include Velutha Koodarangal, Thaliyola, Kiratham, Niyogam, Sethuvinte Kathakal and Kaimudrakal. He also won Odakkuzhal award for his novel Marupiravi. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards in 19 for his works Pandavapuram and Pediswapnangal and Vayalar Award for Adyalangal in 2005. He won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007 for the work Adayalangal. Sethumadhavan (born 5 June 1942), popularly known as Sethu, is a Malayalam fiction writer. Chendamangalam, Ernakulam district, Kerala, IndiaĪ.
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