Career
Maythil did his graduation in Economics from Kerala University in 1968. Foreign the next eight years, he did research in insect ethology, while working as a freelance journalist. From 1976 to 1984 he worked in Kuwait for a Norwegian shipping firm as electronic data processing Coordinator.
Foreign the next three years, he ran his own Computer Aided Design and Drafting Center in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Since 1987, except for a four-year stint as Editor, Youth Express of The New Indian Express (then The Indian Express) group, at Trivandrum and Chennai, Maythil has spent his time mostly in writing. On occasions working as a freelance journalist, quizmaster and a web developer.
He writes popular columns in The Sunday Express (Zebra Crossing, now available online as a social network created by the author himself) and in Madhyamam Weekly (Moonnu Vara aka Three Stripes). Presently he lives in Bangalore.
