Mahendra Meghani was born in Mumbai and educated in Bhavnagar, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. He worked as a companion to his father who was a writer and journalist before he left for New York in 1948. He went to New York to study journalism at Columbia University. He is an editor and journalist and has translated Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three, Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki and Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet into Gujarati.

Mr. Meghani was a publisher of Literary Publication 'Milap'.

His father Shri Zaverchand Megani was well-known Gujarati Poet. He was part of Gandhi's inner circle.