Ramesh Menon is an author, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and corporate trainer. Early life Ramesh Menon, is an author, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and corporate trainer. He was born in Bangalore on 18 October 1955. He grew up in Pune. He completed his B.A. (English Lit.) from Nowrosjee Wadia College and completed his B.J. (Bachelor of Journalism) from the University of Poona. He then completed his master's degree in Mass Communication. He completed a Certificate Course in Film Appreciation from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and another Certificate Course in Development Journalism from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is the son of T. Madhavan Menon and Janaki Menon. He is married to Geeta Menon and lives in Noida. Career He has 43 years of varied media experience with newspapers, television channels, and the new media. He started as a columnist with Poona Herald in 1977. He was a reporter with The Times of India, associate editor, India Today, executive producer, Business India Television, TV Today, roving editor of rediff.com an advisor at The Energy and Resources Institute where he made documentary films on environmental and social issues and managing editor, India Legal, a weekly dealing with legal issues (www.indialegalonline.com). Earlier, he freelanced for numerous newspapers, magazines, and websites and writes on development issues for, Reader's Digest, Prevention and many other publications. He was formerly the Managing Editor, of a weekly magazine India Legal, a politico-legal magazine and Views on News, a media magazine He was formerly the Editor-in-chief of The Leaflet, a legal website. https://www.theleaflet.in He is presently Adjunct Faculty at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune. He also lectures at AJKMCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and is the Course Director of the Creative Writing Short-term Course at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi. He has conducted corporate training on soft skills for numerous organisations and companies. Some of them are Airtel, Hewitt, Dockendale Ship Management Pvt. Ltd., Centaur Hotel, WABCO, Dr. Oetker, DS Group, CNN-IBN, NTV, NewsX and rediff.com Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among many others. Documentary films Ramesh Menon has directed and scripted numerous documentaries on social and environmental issues. Taj Mahal - Not a love Story (1997) (Directed, Scripted and Produced) Climate Change (Directed, Scripted) The Slow Poisoning of India (Directed, Scripted) A New Dawn in the Himalayas (Directed, Scripted) Give us a Life….Please! (Directed, Scripted) Menon has also scripted