Leela made inroads into a profession where women were barely seen and chose to work in Delhi in her first assignment: File photoKochi: Senior journalist and Janmabhoomi editor Leela Menon died on Sunday. She was 86.
Leela Menon, who was born at Vengola in Ernakulam district in 1932 completed her education at the Vengola primary school and the Perumbavoor English school before joining the Nizam College in Hyderabad.
She had a long innings with the Indian Express until she resigned in 2000.
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As a tireless scribe, she survived cancer and a stroke and worked as a columnist for Outlook, the Hindu, Vanitha, Madhyamam and Malayalam and served as the editor of Kerala Midday Times and Corporate Today.
The fiesty reporter, who imbibed a distinct voice to the issues of women, chose to be a journalist at a time when few women would take it up as a profession.
