Gautam Bhattacharya,one of India's finest journalists was raised in the early sixties in downtown Chennai.Gautam was born in Kolkata and lived with the family at Motilal Nehru Road ,a stone's throw from Deshapriya Park.But the family moved out to MGRLand in the midsixties where Gautam effectively spent his childhood.Father,a Senior Accounts Officer with the Central Government,had a transferrable job .Service compulsions led him to travel extensively all over India.Yet he took time off to initiate Gautam in the field of games and sports and movie.