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'''Kizhakkepat Rukmini Menon''' (6 September 1922 – 23 December 2009) was an Indian diplomat, and the second woman to be a career diplomat for the Indian Foreign Service. She was also the first female officer to be enrolled at India's National Defence College.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Menon was born in Kerala, and studied in Bengaluru. She completed her post-graduate education at [[Presidency College, Chennai]], and the [[London School of Economics]]. She was the first woman officer to be enrolled in India's [[National Defence College (India)|National Defence College]], and the second woman to be a career diplomat in India, after [[C. B. Muthamma|C B Muthamma]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=National brief - Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/national-brief/561784/3|access-date=2022-01-23|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Prasad|first=K. V.|date=2009-12-30|title=Demise of pioneer woman diplomat Rukmini Menon condoled|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Demise-of-pioneer-woman-diplomat-Rukmini-Menon-condoled/article16856166.ece|access-date=2022-01-23|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> In 1949, she started working in the High Commission of India in London, and joined the [[Indian Foreign Service]], and served as the Indian ambassador to several countries, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Denmark, and Nigeria.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2009-12-31|title=IFSA mourns Rukmini|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/44098/ifsa-mourns-rukmini.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> Following her retirement from the foreign service, she was a member on the selection board of the [[Union Public Service Commission]] in India. Her husband was musicologist and critic Raghava Menon.<ref name=":1" /> She died on 23 December 2009 in Bengaluru.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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During her career, Menon contributed to academic journals on subjects relating to Indian history and foreign relations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=MENON|first=K. RUKMINI|date=1993|title=Only Option for India and Pakistan|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45083488|journal=World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues|volume=2|issue=2|pages=20–23|issn=0971-8052}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Menon|first=K. Rukmini|date=1965|editor-last=Lamb|editor-first=Alastair|title=The China India Border|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20634052|journal=The Australian Quarterly|volume=37|issue=2|pages=101–106|doi=10.2307/20634052|issn=0005-0091|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Menon|first=K. Rukmini|date=1965|title=How National Was The Indian National Congress?|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1965.tb00415.x|journal=Australian Journal of Politics & History|language=en|volume=11|issue=1|pages=70–81|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8497.1965.tb00415.x|issn=1467-8497|url-access=subscription}}</ref><br />
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