Madhu Babu (Full Name: Valluru Madhusudana Rao) is a Telugu detective novel writer.
[2][3] Madhu Babu's fictional detectives, Shadow, Gangaram, Kulakarni, Mukesh, Bindu, Srikar became very popular during the 1970-1990s.
In May 2022, he started his own Podcast channel on YouTube and other mediums as 'Shadow Madhu Babu (Official) Audio Books'.
He started his own official WHATSAPP (Channel), Telegram group and Facebook page administered by him.
He worked as a head master in Hanuman Junction in Krishna district Andhra Pradesh, Now staying with his son in Hyderabad 2.