Bala Menon

Bala Menon is a journalist-artist-researcher-storyteller with a deep interest in history and anthropology. He began his career with India’s premier English-language newspaper The Times of India in Mumbai, and then took up an assignment as Deputy Editor with Times of Oman, the national daily of the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat. He was later Deputy Night Editor at Gulf News, the largest-circulated English-language newspaper in the Middle East, published from Dubai. He has travelled widely in the Middle East and Europe and now works in a publishing house in Toronto, Canada. He lives with his wife and two sons in the City of Brampton, west of Toronto. Has a popular blog: http://jewsofcochin.blogspot.ca