Ved Mehta  
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Autobiographical excerpt:

"Deprivation often makes a writer. I was born, in 1934, into a Hindu family in India. When I was a couple of months short of my fourth birthday, I lost my sight as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. In India, one of the poorest countries the world has ever known, the lot of the blind was to beg with a walking stick in one hand and an alms bowl in the other. Hindus consider blindness a punishment for sins committed in a previous incarnation. But my father, a doctor, tried to fight the superstition and give me an education, like his other children, so that I could become, as he used to say, a self-supporting citizen of the world." Read more from Ved Mehta's personal history...

From "Sightless in a Sighted World," by Ved Mehta, Encyclopedia Britannica, Medical 2nd Health Annual, 1985.

Read Ved Mehta's entry in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

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News and Announcements

Portrait of Ved Mehta to be Unveiled at Yale September 10, 2012

Joanna and Daniel Rose have commisioned and gifted an oil painting by Paul Oxborough to Berekley College, Yale Univeristy where all three held fellowships

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Favorites from the New Yorker, August 2011

Article on Mehta in First City, Jan 2010

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Mehta Essay in American Scholar, Winter 2010

Wrestling With Two Behemoths

International Articles on Roli Press Publication of Continents of Exile November, 2009

Crest (Times News Network) "No fate worse"

HT City "A New Yorker about town"

HT Live "Ved Mehta shares experiences"

The Hindu "Personal, Professionally"

The Pioneer "A Tribute to Parenthood"

Hindustan Times "Penning Stories of Loss & Fullfillment"

Mail Today "Roli Books Release Ved Mehta's Books"

Mint "I Feel I Belong to Six Worlds"

Tehelka "Family Fabler"

Indian Express "The Light Within"

Financial Express "When Loss Isn't Less"

Business Standard "The Time Traveler's Life"

Mail Today "One Life Many Metaphors"

Indian Express "I Wrote Because..."

Bhaskar News Chandighar "Never Accepted Defeat"(Hindi Original)

Balliol College Annual Record 2009

Mehta Receives Second Shawl in Bharat from Punjab Teachers Association, the first was from the Dali Lama

Royal Society of Literature (United Kingdom)

 

Ved Mehta was selected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature. July 2009.

Articles of Interest

New York Times Style Magazine

"The Photographs of Chachaji is the book that first got me interested in India." - Wes Anderson talking about his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited. Click for Image

Dark Harbor now available in Paperback

"Mehta gives eyes to our understanding of courage." - Cynthia Ozick

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