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Suresh Menon is a highly regarded and widely read cricket writer from India. He currently lives in Bangalore. -
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India Cricket
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Suresh is married to the sculptor, Dimpy Menon -
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Cricket Columnist
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Full Biography
Suresh Menon, one of the youngest newspaper editors in India, is widely regarded as the most literary of India's cricket writers. A Bangalore University topper in economics and political science, Menon began his career with Deccan Herald before moving to Indian Express, Chennai for whom he reported cricket series in Pakistan and New Zealand in the 1980s, and wrote the first of many weekly columns.
He was still in his 20s when he became Sports Editor of The Pioneer and then Sports Editor of the undivided Indian Express in New Delhi. He became an integral part of the national newspaper's think tank, writing editorials on a variety of subjects including a light edit every weekend. He was the highest paid sports writer in the country when he decided to shift focus and accepted an offer from Gulf News, Dubai. He helped raise its profile from a local newspaper to its current international status.
In 2000, responding to a call from the New Indian Express in Chennai he took over as Editor, and launched the New Sunday Express. He quit in 2002, to honour book-writing commitments, but the temptation of daily journalism proved too strong. He launched a newspaper in Bangalore which became the state's highest-selling, and was bought over by the Times of India group.
Through it all, he continued to write columns on a range of subjects - politics, cricket, literature, humour and sport - for a range of publications in India and abroad. He is currently finishing a book on cricket for Penguin. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Dimpy Menon the well-known sculptor, and son Tushar
