Mahendra has always been fascinated by literature and drama and has lived his life following his passion. He believes in working for the people and society and has worked for the welfare of the labor and farmer classes.

Mahendra Neh is an editor at Abhivyakti and General Secretary at Vikalp Akhil Bhartiya Janvadi Sanskritik Samajik Morcha. He is also a surveyor and loss assessor at an insurance intermediary, where he investigates, manages, quantifies, validates, and deals with losses.

Mahendra belongs to Mathura.

Recalling his childhood, Mahendra says that he completed his schooling in Mathura itself. Thereafter, he earned a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic College. He used to participate in poetry competitions and drama during his school and college days. As his father was a Sanskrit teacher, he developed an interest in reading and reciting literary poems. He started writing on his own when he was in the tenth grade. He also got associated with Kala Bhartiya, a theater troupe, as an actor, for which he traveled to different places performing shows. It was his poetic and acting abilities that got him his job, he says.

Mahendra shares that when he was posted in Kota in a heavy industry, he met a renowned litterateur of Kota and joined the Bharatiya Samiti. He also used to perform in the revolving theater under the direction of his director. He also writes articles and poems for the welfare of laborers and farmers and is also engaged in social and cultural programmes at Vikalp Akhil Bhartiya Sahityik Samajik Sanskritik Morcha as a general secretary.

Sharing about his struggles, Mahendra says that he never feared facing struggles in his life. While working in support of laborers and farmers, he was threatened by politicians, but he continued his social work for the betterment of society.

Speaking about his mistakes, Mahendra says he feels that practical knowledge is as important as literary knowledge and says that he lived his life with the utmost simplicity and lacked practicality and cleverness, and recites the lines of a song of Raj Kapoor, "sab kuch sikha humne, na seekhi hoshiyari; sach hai duniya walo hum hai anari". However, he had learned to recognise people and the world from his experiences.

Sharing about his achievements, Mahendra says that the love and support of the people for his social work is his primary accomplishment. He has earned such a name that, today, different publications come to him for publishing his books, poems, and articles. Besides this, the songs and poems written by him are recited in the labor and farmer movements. He has also written a book, Saanch ne Maara.

When asked about his role models, Mahendra says that Kabirdas, who had fought against the orthodox thinking prevailing in the society, followed by poet Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, have been his inspiration. The work of American novelist and writer Howard Fast has also fascinated him.

Mahendra’s life mantra is to give people and society a higher priority in life than money. Love people and do good to them, and they will give it back to you, he says.