Tiddley Trail Stories

Bala Menon is a journalist/artist/and author. He began his career with India's premier English-language newspaper 'The Times of India', in Mumbai, and then worked as Deputy Editor at 'Times of Oman', the national daily of the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat. He was later Deputy Night Editor at 'Gulf news', the largest circulated English-language newspaper in the Middle East, published from Dubai. He has travelled widely in the Middle East and Europe and was until recently Editor-in-Chief at The Voice Media Group in Toronto, Canada. He has a popular blog - http://jewsofcochin.blogspot.com. He is the recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Pin and Certificate from the Canadian Parliament for Community Service, Peel Regional Police Media Award, Rotary Club of Streetsville-Mississauga Certificate for Community Service. Twice awarded medals for 'Best Civic Affairs Reporting', Municipality of Muscat, Oman. Served multiple times as Juror for selection of winners in the Literary Category for the MARTYs Awards in Mississauga. Served on Discussion panels of the Mississauga Arts Council on publishing; and on Media Perspectives at the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. Bala also won the First Prize in the 2025 Bernarda Smrdelj Short Story Contest of the Writers & Editors Network, Toronto.