TY - BOOK AU - Mehta, Vinod AU - May, Eric, ed. TI - Lucknow boy: : a memoir SN - 9780670085293 U1 - 070.92 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Journalist-India-Biography N1 - 1 hometown -- 2 passage to england -- 3 bombay masala-- 4 interesting times -- 5 sweepers wisdom -- 6 some people N2 - "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 ER -