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| Born | (1951-09-20)20 September 1951 (age 74) New Delhi, India |
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Ramakrishna Ramesh Menon (born 20 September 1951) is an Indian author.
He has written several literary renderings in modern English prose of classical works from the ancientHindu tradition.
His books include:
– all published byRupa Publications.
All his main books, apart from the latest Complete Mahabharata series (finished in September 2017), have gone into many reprints in India.
Born in New Delhi, Menon studied atSt Xavier's High School andSt Stephen's College, where he read history honours (1968–69) and then philosophy honours (1969–70), but left college without taking a degree.
Reading theBhagavad Gita at this time was a life-changing experience for him. It was the seed from which all his later work emerged.[citation needed]
He developed an informalguru-sishya relationship with theMalayalam novelistO. V. Vijayan, and translated two of his master's novels into English:The Infinity of Grace[1] (Penguin) andMadhuram Gayathi (yet to be published by Vijayan's estate after his death in 2005).[citation needed]
In addition to Delhi, Menon has lived and worked inBangalore,Chennai,Hong Kong,Jakarta,Kodaikanal andThiruvananthapuram.
In a starred review,Kirkus Reviews described hisRamayana as "A masterpiece made new for a generation of readers who ought to be very grateful indeed to Menon".[2]
British theatre directorPeter Brook called the bookA beautiful new rendering of an inexhaustible theme.[3]
His two-volume rendering ofThe Mahabharata is his most read and reviewed book.
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