Fr Varghese Paul Chollamadam is a 73 year old Jesuit Priest of the Gujarat Province of the Society of Jesus (SJ). He is a well known writer with 44 books in Gujarati, 4 in English, 3 in Malayalam and 1 in Hindi.
He has studied journalism in London School of Journalism, London and has also done three months’ internship in the editorial department of St Anthony Messenger, Cincinnati, USA. He has been the Editor of a Gujarati Catholic family magazine, “DOOT” for 16 years, the longest period for any editor of the 105 year-old magazine.
From 1984 he has been the Founder Director of Catholic Information Service Society (CISS), a public relation office of Ahmedabad Diocese.CISS engages among other things in spreading the message of Jesus and the Bible through different, graded correspondence courses on Jesus and the Bible.
Fr. Varghese has been a Council Member of the International Catholic Union of the Press (UCIP) for 24 years and has travelled to 37 countries for his studies or attending international meetings and World Congresses of UCIP and its successor International Christian Organization of the Media (ICOM).
Reading, writing and travelling are his hobbies