M. K. Das is a Kochi-based writer and columnist with a career in print media spanning over four decades. He was the resident editor of the southern edition of The Financial Express. Later he was the Editor (Kerala) first of The Indian Express and later of The New Indian Express. His books include Anchor Cochin, a coffee-table volume on Cochin published by the Cochin Port Trust; A Southern Odyssey, the corporate story of the Trichur-based South Indian Bank; Tryst With Bulls and Bears, about the Cochin-based Geojit Financial Services Ltd., A Journey Through Time 1857–2007, about the Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which he coauthored; and Saga of Kalpathy, about the migration of Tamil Brahmins to Kerala since 13th century.