Chander Mehra, 84, a low-profile veteran, distinguished himself as Africa Bureau Chief of The Statesman, Training Editor of Nation Media Group, Kenya, and Africa representative of the media freedom watchdog International Press Institute as well as Guest Professor at the Post-graduate School of Journalism - without winning any accolades. He has re-launched himself after long illness, with some excellent books including Corruption” Dealing with the Devil, and The Curse of Money-Laundering, and more on the way. Detained once during the Emergency, and thrice by African tyrants, he has interviewed Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Chandrashekhar and several African leaders. He is respected for his proclivity to pick controversial subjects for his books and commentaries. Mr. Mehra also edited the manuscript of Jayaprakash Narayan’s Total Revolution. Indira Gandhi had him detained for doing so. He writes for fulfilment. not fame and fortune, controversial without malice, in quest for excellence, without being rewarded.