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Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
Indian writer
Oyyarathu Chandu Menon (popularly known as O.
Chandu Menon; 1847–1899) was a Malayalam language novelist.
In Indulekha, Menon depicts the story of a high caste Hindu feudal family of Northern Kerala, under the regime of British power.He is the author of Indulekha, the first major novel in Malayalam published in 1889.
Life
Chandu Menon was born on 9 January 1847 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.
“Glimpses from a Writer's World: O. Chandu Menon, His Contemporaries, and Their Times.” Studies in History 20 (): – Arunima, G. “Imagining.
He had higher school education in the Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School in Thalassery. 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 1857, his 52 year old father died due to diabetes. In 1864 his mother died w
