Lucknow Boy: A Memoir"Mehta grew up as an insouciant army brat from a Punjabi refugee family, in the syncretic culture of Lucknow of the 1950s an experience that turned him into an unflagging pseudo secularist . Leaving home with a BA third class degree, he experimented with a string of jobs, including that of a factory hand in suburban Britain, before accepting an offer to edit Debonair, a journal best known for featuring naked women. With the eclecticism and flair that were to become his hallmark, he turned it into an intelligent, lively magazine, while managing to keep fans of its centrespreads happy. The next three decades saw Vinod Mehta becoming one of India's most widely-read and influential editors, as he launched a number of successful new publications, from the now legendary Sunday Observer to the weekly newsmagazine, Outlook ..."--Publisher's description |
Contents
01Chapter I | 1 |
02Chapter II | 30 |
03Chapter III | 71 |
04Chapter IV | 141 |
05Chapter V | 259 |
06Chapter VI | 277 |
07Acknowledgment | 306 |
08Index | 307 |
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