He has written several literary renderings in modern English prose of classical works from the ancient Hindu tradition.

All his main books, apart from the latest Complete Mahabharata series (finished in September 2017), have gone into many reprints in India.

[citation needed] He developed an informal guru-sishya relationship with the Malayalam novelist O. V. Vijayan, and translated two of his master's novels into English: The Infinity of Grace[1] (Penguin) and Madhuram Gayathi (yet to be published by Vijayan's estate after his death in 2005).

[citation needed] In addition to Delhi, Menon has lived and worked in Bangalore, Chennai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kodaikanal and Thiruvananthapuram.

[2] British theatre director Peter Brook called the book A beautiful new rendering of an inexhaustible theme.