Vinod Mehta (1942-2015) left home with a BA third classdegree, experimented with a string of jobs, including that of a factory hand in suburban Britain, before accepting an offer to edit Debonair. He went on to become one of India's most influential editors, launching a number of successful publications from the Sunday Observer to Pioneer to Outlook. Vinod Mehta has authored a biography of Meena Kumari (2013) and published (in 2001) a collection of his articles under the title Mr Editor, How Close Are You to the PM? His much-acclaimed memoir, Lucknow Boy, was published in 2011.
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