Mathai is a professor at Gujarat Vidyapith, the university founded by Gandhi in Ahmedabad, India. He has been dean of the Gandhi Research Foundation and former professor and director of the School of Studies of Thought and Development of Gandhi, M.G. University of Kerala, India. He is the author of Gandhi’s Worldview and editor of Gandhi Marg.
Mathai is a well-known speaker in East and West, and recently spoke at the signing of a peace pledge among some 400 rival gang members in Monterrey, Mexico.