[1] He was one of the founders of Hindustani Samaj, an Indian community in Moscow[2] and a recipient of the Medal of Pushkin and the Order of Friendship of the former Soviet Union.
[2] He had early acquaintance with Russian culture when he secured his PhD, based on a comparative study of the works of Maxim Gorky and Premchand.
[2] In 1957, during the India visit of the then president of the now defunct Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, he was invited to serve as a translator in Moscow, in view of his knowledge of Russian culture.
[2] Madhu translated over 100 Russian classics into Hindi language, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina of Leo Tolstoy, poems of Chukovsky and Marshak and several works of Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Kuprin, Lermontov, Mayakovsky and Chekhov.
[4][5] Besides, he translated the works of Premchand into Russian language[6] and published two volumes of poems, Ek Do Teen[7] and Aise Ladke Bhi Hote Hain,[8] several plays and literary articles.