M. P. M. Menon

Muthal Puredath Muralidhara Menon (10 July 1942 – 25 January 2013) was an Indian diplomat, ambassador to Bahrain, Maldives, United Arab Emirates and Brazil.

He then joined the Indian Army Short Services Commission, which had been established in the aftermath of the India-China War of 1962.

His boss, the Indian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was the future Prime Minister of India, I. K. Gujral.

The country was also a source of oil for India, and home to a large Indian expatriate population.

These included multiple trips to Pakistan, where he was shown tremendous hospitality when people found out that he was from India.

[8] Menon arrived in Maldives soon after the attempted coup against President Gayoom, by foreign mercenaries.

This was during the height of the Khalistan movement, which received significant support from the Sikh expatriates in Canada.

In order to show the integration of Sikhs with India, he attended a gurudwara function, thus becoming the first Indian diplomat to officially attend a Sikh religious function in his official capacity, since the Khalistan issue erupted in the 1980s.

[11] One of his favourite ways to build good relations with the Indian community was to remember the birthdays of a large number of people.

There was a spurt in the cooperation between Brazil and India, the largest democracies in South America and Asia, respectively.

Among them was the Inland Water Transport,[14] India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Cooperation [15] and India International Centre seminars on Latin America.