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Ramesh
Menon
Ramesh Menon has been a
journalist for the last 30 years working with print, television and the
new media. He recently got the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for
Excellence in Journalism. It is India's biggest media award and is seen
as India's Pulitzer.
He started with The Times of India in Mumbai and then moved on to India
Today where he reported from various states in India for 14 years. He
was an associate editor of the magazine. He was an executive producer at
Business India Television, TV Today and Sahara TV. He anchored a weekly
environment programme called, 'Ecologic' on Business India Television
and has done numerous current affair TV shows. He has directed and
scripted numerous documentary films on environmental and social issues
that has been screened at different film, festivals.
His first documentary film, Taj Mahal-Not a Love Story, was done
for the World Bank and looked at livelihood issues in Agra. His recent
films include, Global Warning, that talks of how climate change will
affect India. Another film, The Slow Poisoning of India, talks of how
India is carelessly using pesticides and how it is getting into our
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Another film, 'Give us a life please',
looks at how a degraded environment affects children the most.
He is a visiting faculty at numerous communication and management
institutes. He enjoys being a corporate trainer in soft skills.
Way back in 1985, he wrote a book on the caste and communal violence in
Gujarat. In the early nineties, he got the Madhavankutty Gold Medal for
excellence in Journalism for a piece he wrote on the changing face of
hardcore Naxalites in Kerala. He is presently working on a novel. He now
freelances writing for numerous publications.
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