Lucknow Boy A Memoir

Sharp insightful shocking delightful. In this sparkling memoir Vinod Mehta India's most independent principled and irreverent editor finally tells his own story. With its ring side view of some major events of our times and masterly portraits from the worlds of politics business films and the media this unputdownable book brims over with wit wisdom scandal and gossip.Selling Points'This autobiography is more readable than that of any other Indian' Khushwant Singh.'Vinod Mehta is an engaging raconteur full of a fund of well-told remembrances recounted with bounding good humor' Mani Shankar Aiyar.'A charming memoir' Ramachandra Guha About the Author Vinod Mehta has founded and edited numerous publications among them India's first Sunday paper the Sunday Observer the Indian Post the Independent and the Pioneer (Delhi edition). Currently he is editorial chairman of the Outlook Group which brings out several magazines including the weekly news magazine Outlook. Vinod Mehta has authored biographies of Sanjay Gandhi and Meena Kumari and in 2001 published a collection of his articles under the title Mr. Editor How Close Are You to the PM?