Lucknow boy: a memoir /
by Vinod Mehta
- New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2011.
- xiv, 325 p.
1 hometown -- 2 passage to england -- 3 bombay masala-- 4 interesting times -- 5 sweepers wisdom -- 6 some people
"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