M. O. Mathai

M.O Mathai (1909 – 28 August 1981), in full Mundapallil Oommen Mathai, was the Private Secretary to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He is primarily famed for his memoirs in Reminiscences of the Nehru Age (1978) and My Days with Nehru (1979). Mathai was born to a traditional Marthoma Syrian Christian family in central Travancore. Mathai used to work for the United States Army in India, before becoming the Private Secretary to Nehru in 1946. He resigned from his post in 1959, after the Communists accused him of misusing his power to commit financial fraud.