Blinded at the age of 4 as a result of meningitis, at a time when the sightless in his native India were generally considered uneducable, Ved Mehta not only managed to receive an education but also ...
In “The Red Letters,” the 11th and final book of Ved Mehta’s family history, “Continents of Exile,” the author struggles to come to terms with his father’s two-year affair in the early 1930s with a ...
Born in 1934 in India, Ved Mehta was just two months shy of his fourth birthday when he lost his sight to cerebrospinal meningitis. As the blind were considered uneducable, he was sent in 1949 to a ...
In this excruciatingly honest autobiographical work, author Mehta conducts an exquisite exploration of his love life as a young man, attempting to focus an objective lens on the most subjective of ...
Reviews of Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta & Here But Not Here: A Love Story by Lillian Ross Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our ...
A Hindu who was born in the Vale of Kashmir twenty-five years ago and blinded by meningitis at the age of three, VED MEHTAcame alone to the United States when he was fifteen to attend the Arkansas ...
His father, conferred with the title Rai Bahadur by the British, was ironically the Assistant Director of Public Health in Lahore when writer Ved Mehta was afflicted with blindness from cerebrospinal ...
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