In 1984, Menon co-foundedKali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, along withUrvashi Butalia, her longtime collaborator. In 2003,Kali for Women shut shop due to lack of commercial viability compounded by irreconcilable personal differences between Menon and Butalia. Thereafter, Menon independently foundedWomen Unlimited, another feminist publishing house.[3]
She has also written numerous newspaper articles andop-eds. Her writing focuses onviolence against women, religion's take on women and the gender divide across the society from a stronglyfeminist and left-wing perspective.[4]
Over aZoom call, she talked aboutAddress Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID, which she wrote during the pandemic without an explicit plan to publish a book. “It became a form of putting down what I was going through, remembering, thinking, reading, and worrying about,” she says (13 July 2021).[5]
