[1] She mentioned that as a child she liked reading writers such as Enid Blyton, Charles Hamilton and W.E.
[2] After J Krishnamurthi school in Chennai, she moved to Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Delhi.
[3] Menon and her sister in law, Indu Chandrasekhar ran a pre-press service called Tulika to "earn enough money" to publish their own books.
Tulika's books for children pioneered a significant wave in Indian publishing in 1996.
They publish children literature in languages such as English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali.