Relative Values: Ved Mehta and His Daughter, Sage
Blind from the age of four, Ved Mehta, now 71, was born in India and educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities. He ...
‘There Was Salman, Shouting Away’
Salman Rushdie I met Ved through a television producer called Nick Fraser right at the birth of Channel 4 back in 1980. At ...
Steamy Sights for Poor Eyes
Sorry to bring up l'affaire Blunkett so soon after Christmas, but I've been pondering the connection between blindness and sex. Does a ...
Talent Knows No Borders
Born in Lahore in 1934, Ved Mehta has lived an itinerant life. The partition of India in 1947 forced him and his ...
An Island Gift
The distinguished author Ved Mehta, 69, looks uncomfortably out of place in his summer home on the Maine island of Islesboro. A ...
At Home with Ved Mehta: In a Dark Harbor, a Bright House
ISLESBORO, Me. — The snow was knee-deep on the day Ved Mehta and the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes walked through an uncleared ...
It’s the Age of McDonald’s: Interview with Sheela Reddy
When you started out to be a writer, it must have been even tougher than it possibly was for V.S.Naipaul, given your ...
Sight Unseen
"Deprivation often makes a writer," says Ved Mehta, whose serial autobiography charts his rise from a sometimes brutal childhood in British India, ...
Seeing Without Sight
There are two marble statues in the hallway of Ved Mehta's New York apartment, both beautiful in their very different ways. Once ...
At This Dinner, Harmony Is Served
India and America clinked glasses in their new whirlwind friendship at an elaborate and exotic state dinner at the White House last ...
Mehta Broadens, Challenges Cultural Perspectives
"One need only glance at the credentials of Ved Mehta, who joined the teaching staff at Williams for this semester as an ...
Ved Mehta Ruminates on Rushdie Furor
Ved Mehta is a man of the world because he had no choice. Blind since age 4, rootless since his teens, Mehta, ...
Inside the New Yorker
“Sweetheart, you don’t want to play with that. Here, let me take you to mommy.” The speaker is Ved Mehta, and the ...
Ved Mehta: His Prose Is ‘Airy, Elegant, Clear’
"Money may not be everything to the writer of serious works rarely destined for top-10’s and movie deals, but it certainly helps, ...
Ved Mehta — Unique Documentarian
Ved Mehta has been a staff writer with The New Yorker for 17 years. This Thursday at 9 P.M., Channel 13 will televise his ...
A Most Remarkable Man
SatReviewAbout
Blindness and Self-Perception: The Autobiographies of Ved Mehta
Ludwig Wittgenstein asks in his Remarks on Colour if it would be possible to explain to a blind person what it is like to ...
The Editor and the Exile
1. Insofar as Ved Mehta’s latest memoir has been noticed at all, it has been as an insider’s story of the most tumultuous ...
