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Indian writer

Oyyarathu Chandu Menon (popularly known as O.

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Chandu Menon; –) was a Malayalam language novelist. He is the author of Indulekha, the first major novel in Malayalam published in

Life

Chandu Menon was born on 9 January in Naduvannur near Perambra in the present day Kozhikode District.^[1] His family moved to Thalassery when he was an infant.

Chandu Menon got his first lessons from Koran Gurukkal, one of his neighbors. He learnt Sanskrit poetry, drama and grammar from Pandit Kunjanbu Nambiar. About the same time, he received English lessons from a local school and later from K.

Kunjan Menon. He had higher school education in the Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School in Thalassery.

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While studying there he is reported to have qualified for the uncovenanted Civil Service by securing a high rank in the test for that Service. In , his 52 year old father died due to diabetes. In his mother died when he was in the matriculat