Outlook India's Editor-in-Chief & Renowned Journalist, Vinod Mehta's Autobiography launched

Lucknow Boy: Vinod Mehta

Outlook India's Editor-in-Chief and renowned journalist, Vinod Mehta's autobiography Lucknow Boy was launched in New Delhi on 9 November 2011. The book provides talks at length about the life of the journalist in scam-hit India. His autobiography provides a ringside view into major events of the times.

Embedded with racy tales and thoughtful insights on Indian politics and society, Lucknow Boy provides an account of the life of one of India's most independent editors. Mehta's book recounted his struggle for editorial independence through his nearly four-decade-long tryst with Indian journalism.

Lucknow Boy is  shocking, insightful, sharp and delightful at the same time. The book is marked with the eclecticism and flair that is his hallmark of  Vinod Mehta.

The memoir published by Penguin Viking recounts his encounters with personalties from the world of politics, business, films and the media with pen portraits of personalities ranging from Shobhaa De to V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Sonia Gandhi.

About the Author

Vinod Mehta grew up in Lucknow in 1950`s. Mehta left home with a BA third class degree and experimented with a string of jobs including that of a factory hand in suburban Britain before accepting an offer to edit Deboanir.
Over the next few decades, Mehta launched several publications including the legendary Sunday Observer and the weekly newsmagazine Outlook.