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Nimo N. Menon

Nimo N. Menon

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Nirmala Menon has worked in Advertising Agencies in Mumbai and Bangalore . She also set up Oceanfresh , a direct marketing firm for the distribution of Frozen Seafood in Bangalore.She has worked as a Secondary school teacher teaching Science, Maths and Creative Writing . She started Creative Interaction- a workshop for children , a forum for their creative expression and discovery.The Art Connect Initiative's Art Workshops were also started by Ms. Menon - a platform for wannabe artists to interact with established artists to hone their skills.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

Story Behind The Book

"I do not claim that my book is a literary masterpiece. This is a book written by an ordinary woman with a middle class upbringing. A hardworking woman who knows what it is like to take life head on, making the most of situations, believing in herself. She has listened to her heart and gone by her instinct-doing her best at all times. She has always been true to herself. Understandably, there have been moments of dejection and despair, but she has risen above that. I am this woman. I know not how to utter measured sentences and I am not guilty that I have at all times tried to break the shackles binding me. I have tried to inhale fresh air, live, breathe and meditate. I have always risen above frivolous attempts to malign my actions or lower my self concept. I have done the best for my family, my home, my career. I have shrugged off disillusionment, hurt and sorrow and with positive thoughts, gone ahead with life.”

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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong>Reviews…</strong></em></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em> </em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em>‘The poems have a very contemporary feel to it. The voice is unabashedly first person,</em><em>but with a very definite universal feel/appeal.’  - <strong>Vidya Virkar, Strand Book Stall</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em>‘It was an evening of revelation for many at Landmark, Numgambakkam, on Friday,29<sup>th</sup> June. Nimo N. Menon’s book, ‘ Towards a New Harmony with Life’ </em><em>Which was launched by actor/director Revathy, is something that would hold the attention of women who have faced life with all the trials and tribulations associated with modern times and overcome them by just believing in themselves’.</em><em><strong>                                                                                                  -Express Features</strong></em><em><strong>                                                                                           </strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>‘Myriad Moods in Verse’</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong>                   - The Hindu, Chennai, 3rd July, 2007 (Asha S. Menon)</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong>   </strong></em></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><strong> </strong></em></p>