Chennai, Sep 5 - Mercy Ravi, wife of Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, died here early Saturday morning at the Madras Medical Mission hospital, family sources said. She was 63.

Mercy Ravi died of kidney failure around 3 a.m. Ravi and his three children were at her bedside when she died. She was admitted to the hospital on Aug 27.

Mercy Ravi was a former MLA from Kottayam.