Life and Career

KC Varghese was born in 1952 at Karuvelithara house in Poovam near Kottayam in Kerala 1952 as the son of KM Chacko Karuvelithara and Thresiamma Chacko. He has two brothers and three sisters.

Varghese had his primary education at NSS High School, Changanacherry. He completed his High School education from Government High School, Kunnam, Mavelikkara. He had his intermediate education at NSS College, Ottapalam and graduation in Economics from NSS College, Changanacherry.

Currently, he is working as the Assistant Advertisement Manager in Gulf Times. He also worked as a MAC operator at Cable & Wireless and Qatar Public Telecommunication Corporation apart from being the Executive Director of Gulf India International Company, he also served as the Director of Orchid Construction Company in Kochi, Kerala

Present Positions

• Advisory Board Chairman Indian Cultural and Arts Society Qatar.
• Advisory Board Chairman Qatar Syro Malabar Cultural Association
• Advisory Board Vice Chairman of Embassy of India - Indian Cultural Centre
• Managing Committee Member and Head of Medical Aid - Embassy of India Indian Community Benevelont Fund.
• Member Follow up committee of Norka (Ministry of Non Resident Keralite
• Affairs)
• President of Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), Qatar.

Some of the positions he held from (1963 - 1977) are:

• Central Committee member, All Kerala Balajanasakhyam, Kolla Kadavu Union, Mavelikara
• Central Committee member, All Kerala Balajanasakhyam, Changanacherry Union
• President, Kerala Students Union, Changanacherry Taluk
• General Secretary, Changanacherry NSS College Union - 1973
• General Secretary, Kerala Students Union, Kottayam and Palakkad District Committee
• President, Block Youth Congress Committee, Changanacherry
• President of different Trade unions in Kottayam District

His activities in Doha-Qatar, from 1977-2005

• General Secretary of the Action Council formed in Qatar to Upgrade Trivandrum Airport as an International Airport
• President, Veekshana Vedi, a Socio Cultural Organization of Malayalees in Doha.
• General Secretary of Indian Overseas Congress
• Founder Member, Indian Embassy Indian Community Benevolent Fund
• Founder Member, Indian Embassy Indian Cultural Centre
• Patron, Doha Chorus - a Socio-Cultural organization of Keralites in Qatar
• Managing Committee Member, Benevolent Fund
• Managing Committee Member, Indian Cultural Center
• Parent -Teachers Council member, M.E.S Indian School, Doha, Qatar
• Convenor, Gulf Malayalee Friendship Society
• Co-ordinator, Gulf Passengers Association.
• Cultural Secretary, Indian Cultural Centre
• Vice President, 'Pravasi' - a Socio Cultural organization of Malayalees in Qatar.
• President of Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), Qatar.

Worked as a free-lance Journalist from 80 -2000

He has covered all the important events in the Qatar - Gulf & Middle East for the Malayala Manorama newspaper. As part of his job, he has traveled all over the world and wrote articles about different countries, including Japan, Venice, Monaco, Amsterdam etc. He has also covered Madrid peace conference and Many Arab-Israeli Conferences and GCC conferences. Gulf War after the Kuwait invasion of Iraq, & Mena Conference ( Middle East and North African Summit).

Apart from his activities as a journalist, he has also worked as the Coordinator for the visits of various Ministers and Dignitaries from Kerala/India.

Now he is the President of  Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) which is  the official Cultural wing of  Indian Embassy in  Qatar.

ICC is the  Apex body of all Indian Associations in   Qatar. 

There are about Sixty organizations  representing  180,000 Indians in Qatar, from various  states of India,   are affiliated in ICC.