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'''Radhika Menon''' is an Indian publisher. She is the founder of [[Tulika Publishers|Tulika books]] which was started by her publishing business in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://businessworld.in/article/-The-More-Packed-With-Facts-And-Figures-The-Better-They-Sell-/07-03-2016-91678/ |title='The More Packed With Facts And Figures, The Better They Sell' |last=Chaini |first=Sanjitha Rao |date=7 March 2016 }}</ref><br />
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== Early days ==<br />
She mentioned that as a child she liked reading writers such as [[Enid Blyton]], [[Charles Hamilton (writer)|Charles Hamilton]] and [[W.E. Johns]].<ref name=TheHindu>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/down-memory-lane-with-tulika/article8280565.ece |title=Down memory lane with Tulika |publisher=The Hindu |date= |accessdate=2016-12-09}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
In 1978, with an interest in children's education, Menon worked at the J. Krishnamurti school.<ref name=TheHindu/> After J Krishnamurthi school in Chennai, she moved to Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in Delhi.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://kitaabworld.com/blogs/in-focus/radhika-menon-talks-about-tulika|title=Radhika Menon talks about Tulika|newspaper=KitaabWorld|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref> <br />
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Menon and her sister in law Indu Chandrasekhar ran a pre-press service called Tulika to "earn enough money" to publish their own books. Subsequently, Chandrasekhar founded [[Tulika Books]] in New Delhi in 1995, and Menon founded Tulika Publishers in Chennai.<br />
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== Tulika Books ==<br />
Tulika's books for children pioneered a significant wave in Indian publishing in 1996. They publish children literature in languages such as English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.tulikabooks.com/ Official website of Tulika Books]<br />
* [http://www.publishingnext.in/radhika-menon/ Publishingnext.in]<br />
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