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 ...

Continents of Exile: All for Love, by Ved Mehta. Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books. 345 pages. $24.95. All for Love, the new memoir by the long-time New Yorker writer Ved Mehta, works in the manner ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“Continents of Exile: All for Love” (Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 345 pages, $24.95), the new memoir by the longtime New Yorker writer Ved Mehta, works in the manner of an intellectual and ...