K. S.R. MENON

KSR Menon has worked as the Middle East correspondent of Indian news agencies – the Press Trust of India and later the United News of India – in Dubai for many years. Reporting on the political and economic developments in the region has given him a keen insight into the life in one of the most volatile regions of the world. Menon was also News Editor with Emirates Evening Post, the first eveninger from Dubai.

His articles have appeared in Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), Lloyd’s List (London), Khaleej Times (Dubai), Gulf Today (Sharjah), Daily Star (Beirut) and World Press Review (New York) as well as Hindustan Times, Times of India, and DNA, to mention a few Indian dailies.

He has published two books: A Style Book for Authors and Journalists (in English, by a Delhi publisher) and a travelogue in his mother tongue Malayalam which is spoken by 30 million people in Kerala, India. The travelogue was earlier serialized in a popular weekly, Kalakaumudi. He has also published short stories.

A post graduate in English Literature, he studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. He was also associated with the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi for about a year.