ISBN: 9789351773870    Publisher: Harper Collins India Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 272        Language: English

Vinod Mehta distils his observations and insights into the Sanjay Gandhi phenomenon and its impact on the national scene. In his compelling, honest style, Mehta sifts facts from rumours and gets to the core of Sanjay's dramatic emergence after the declaration of Emergency. Containing a new introduction by the author, The Sanjay Story allows readers to look with the benefit of hindsight at the rise and fall of one of independent India's most controversial figures.
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Vinod Mehta (1942-2015) left home with a BA third class degree, 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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